gest
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from Middle French#GESTCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#GEST geste. Doublet of jestCategory:English doublets#GEST.
Noun
gest (countable and uncountable, plural gests)Category:English lemmas#GESTCategory:English nouns#GESTCategory:English uncountable nouns#GESTCategory:English countable nouns#GESTCategory:English countable nouns#GESTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
- (archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#GEST) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
- The tales of Robin Hood, or the gests written by Ariost the Italian in his booke intituled Orlando furioso.Category:English terms with quotations#GEST
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Who faire them quites, as him beseemed best,Category:English terms with quotations#GEST
And goodly gan discourse of many a noble gest.
- (archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#GEST) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
- a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon
- And surely no Ceremonies of dedication , no not of Solomons Temple it self , are comparable to those sacred gests , whereby this place was sanctified
- a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon
- (archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#GEST) Bearing; deportment.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24:
- through his heroic grace and honorable gestCategory:English terms with quotations#GEST
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#GEST) A gesture or action.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- They did obeysaunce, as beseemed right, / And then againe returned to their restes: / The Porter eke to her did lout with humble gestes.Category:English terms with quotations#GEST
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 36, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- more Kings and Princes have written his gestes and actions, than any other historians, of what quality soever, have registred the gests, or collected the actions of any other King or Prince that ever was […].Category:English terms with quotations#GEST
Derived terms
Translations
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Etymology 2
A variant of gist (“resting-place”)Category:English links with manual fragments#GEST.
Noun
gest (plural gests)Category:English lemmas#GESTCategory:English nouns#GESTCategory:English countable nouns#GESTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#GEST) Alternative form of gist (“a stop for lodging or rest in a journey, or the place where this happens; a rest”).
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- […] Yet of your Royall presence, Ile aduenture / The borrow of a Weeke. When at Bohemia / You take my Lord, Ile giue him my Commission, / To let him there a Moneth, behind the Gest / Prefix'd for's parting: yet (good-deed) Leontes, / I loue thee not a Iarre o'th' Clock, behind / What Lady she her Lord. You'le stay?Category:English terms with quotations#GEST
Derived terms
- gests (“roll reciting the several stages of a royal progress”)
Anagrams
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Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:Catalan terms borrowed from Latin#GESTCategory:Catalan terms derived from Latin#GEST gestus. First attested in the 14th century.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
gest m (plural gests or gestos)Category:Catalan lemmas#GESTCategory:Catalan nouns#GESTCategory:Catalan countable nouns#GESTCategory:Catalan nouns with multiple plurals#GESTCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Catalan masculine nouns#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
Related terms
References
- ↑ “gest”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
Further reading
- “gest”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “gest” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “gest”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Icelandic
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
gestCategory:Icelandic non-lemma forms#GESTCategory:Icelandic noun forms#GESTCategory:Icelandic entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
Etymology 2
Verb
gestCategory:Icelandic non-lemma forms#GESTCategory:Icelandic verb forms#GESTCategory:Icelandic entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
Middle Dutch
Alternative forms
Etymology
Category:Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic#GESTCategory:Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#GESTFrom Old DutchCategory:Middle Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch#GESTCategory:Middle Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch#GEST *gest, *gist, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#GESTCategory:Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#GEST *jestu.
Noun
gest m or fCategory:Middle Dutch lemmas#GESTCategory:Middle Dutch nouns#GESTCategory:Middle Dutch entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Middle Dutch masculine nouns#GESTCategory:Middle Dutch feminine nouns#GESTCategory:Middle Dutch nouns with multiple genders#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
Inflection
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | gest | geste |
| accusative | gest | geste |
| genitive | gests | geste |
| dative | geste | gesten |
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | gest | geste |
| accusative | gest | geste |
| genitive | gest, geste | geste |
| dative | gest, geste | gesten |
Alternative forms
Descendants
Further reading
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “gest (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
Middle English
Etymology 1
From a conflation of Old NorseCategory:Middle English terms derived from Old Norse#GEST gestr and Old EnglishCategory:Middle English terms derived from Old English#GEST ġiest; both from Proto-GermanicCategory:Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#GEST *gastiz, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#GEST *gʰóstis. Doublet of hostCategory:Middle English doublets#GEST.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
gestCategory:Middle English lemmas#GESTCategory:Middle English nouns#GESTCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST (plural gestes)
- A guest, visitor; somebody staying at another's residence.
- A customer of a hostel or inn; one that pays for accommodation.
- An unknown person; a foreigner or outsider.
- A (often threatening) male individual; a ominous person.
- (figurative, rareCategory:Middle English terms with rare senses#GEST) A male lover of a woman; a man in an unofficial intimate relationship with a woman.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “gest, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 26 April 2018.
Etymology 2
Noun
gestCategory:Middle English alternative forms#GESTCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
- alternative form of geste (“tale”)
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1126-1127:
- In olde Romayn gestes may men finde
Maurices lyf; I bere it noght in minde.- In the old Roman histories may men find
Maurice's life; I bear it not in mind.
- In the old Roman histories may men find
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 209-211:
- [...] Or elles it was the Grekes hors Synon,
That broghte Troye to destruccion,
As men may in thise olde gestes rede, [...]- [...] Or else it was Sinon the Greek's horse,
That brought Troy to destruction,
As men in these old romances read, [...]
- [...] Or else it was Sinon the Greek's horse,
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1126-1127:
Etymology 3
Noun
gestCategory:Middle English alternative forms#GESTCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
- alternative form of geste (“tribe”)
Etymology 4
Verb
gestCategory:Middle English alternative forms#GESTCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
- alternative form of gesten (“to host a guest”)
Etymology 5
Verb
gestCategory:Middle English alternative forms#GESTCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
- alternative form of gesten (“to read poetry”)
Etymology 6
Noun
gestCategory:Middle English alternative forms#GESTCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
- alternative form of yest (“beer foam”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From LatinCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Latin#GEST gestus, via FrenchCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from French#GEST geste.
Noun
gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gester, definite plural gestene)Category:Norwegian Bokmål lemmas#GESTCategory:Norwegian Bokmål nouns#GESTCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
- a gesture
References
- “gest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From LatinCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Latin#GEST gestus, via FrenchCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from French#GEST geste.
Pronunciation
Noun
gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gestar, definite plural gestane)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#GESTCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk nouns#GESTCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
- a gesture
References
- “gest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
ġest mCategory:Old English lemmas#GESTCategory:Old English nouns#GESTCategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Old English masculine nouns#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
- alternative form of ġiest (“guest”)
Declension
Strong i-stem:
Old Frisian
Etymology
Possibly borrowed from Old Saxon gēst or Old High German geist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡeːst/, [ˈɡɛːst]Category:Old Frisian terms with IPA pronunciation#GEST
Noun
gēst mCategory:Old Frisian lemmas#GESTCategory:Old Frisian nouns#GESTCategory:Old Frisian entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Old Frisian masculine nouns#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
- alternative form of gāst
References
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009), An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28
Old Norse
Noun
gestCategory:Old Norse non-lemma forms#GESTCategory:Old Norse noun forms#GESTCategory:Old Norse entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
Old Saxon
Alternative forms
Etymology
Category:Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Germanic#GESTCategory:Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#GESTFrom Proto-West GermanicCategory:Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#GESTCategory:Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#GEST *gaist.
Noun
gēst mCategory:Old Saxon lemmas#GESTCategory:Old Saxon nouns#GESTCategory:Old Saxon entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Old Saxon masculine nouns#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | gēst | gēstos |
| accusative | gēst | gēstos |
| genitive | gēstes | gēstō |
| dative | gēste | gēstum |
| instrumental | — | — |
Descendants
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from LatinCategory:Polish terms borrowed from Latin#GESTCategory:Polish learned borrowings from Latin#GESTCategory:Polish terms derived from Latin#GEST gestus.
Pronunciation
Noun
gest m inanCategory:Polish lemmas#GESTCategory:Polish nouns#GESTCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Polish masculine nouns#GESTCategory:Polish inanimate nouns#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
Declension
Further reading
- “gest”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “gest”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN (in Polish)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from French#GESTCategory:Romanian terms derived from French#GEST geste.
Noun
gest n (plural gesturi)Category:Romanian lemmas#GESTCategory:Romanian nouns#GESTCategory:Romanian countable nouns#GESTCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Romanian neuter nouns#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
Swedish
Etymology
From LatinCategory:Swedish terms derived from Latin#GEST gestus (“having been carried”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gest cCategory:Swedish lemmas#GESTCategory:Swedish nouns#GESTCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Swedish common-gender nouns#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
- a gesture; a motion of the hands
- gäster med gester
- guests with gestures (title of a Swedish TV show)
- gäster med gester
- a gesture; a symbolic action, a signal
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | gest | gests |
| definite | gesten | gestens | |
| plural | indefinite | gester | gesters |
| definite | gesterna | gesternas |
Related terms
References
- “gest”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “gest”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “gest”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
Anagrams
Welsh
Pronunciation
Verb
gestCategory:Welsh non-lemma forms#GESTCategory:Welsh mutated verbs#GESTCategory:Welsh entries with incorrect language header#GESTCategory:Pages with entries#GESTCategory:Pages with 15 entries#GEST
- soft mutation of cestCategory:Welsh soft-mutation forms#CEST