gest

See also: Gest

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French geste.

Noun

gest (countable and uncountable, plural gests)

1. (obsolete) 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.

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2. (archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.

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3. (archaic) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.

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4. (archaic) bearing; deportment
   • Edmund Spenser

     through his heroic grace and honorable gest

Translations

gesture

• French: geste (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

verse romance

• French: geste (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Etymology 2

Compare gist a resting place.

Noun

gest (plural gests)

1. (obsolete) A stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.

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2. (obsolete) A roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress.

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Anagrams

• gets, steg, tegs

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Catalan

Noun

gest m (plural gests or gestos)

1. gesture

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Icelandic

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

1. indefinite accusative singular of gestur

Etymology 2

Verb

1. singular present indicative of getast
2. second-person imperative of getast

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *gest, *gist, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz.

Noun

gest m or f

1. yeast

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• gist

Descendants

• Dutch: gist

Further reading

• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “gest (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From a conflation of Old Norse gestr and Old English ġiest; both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Germanic *gʰóstis. Doublet of host.

Alternative forms

• geste, gist, geast, gyst

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛst/, /ɡɛːst/, /ɡist/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

gest (plural gestes)

2. A guest, visitor; somebody staying at another's residence.
3. A customer of a hostel or inn; one that pays for accomodation.
4. An unknown person; a foreigner or outsider.
5. A (often threatening) male individual; a ominous person.
6. (figurative, rare) A male lover of a woman; a man in an unofficial intimate relationship with a woman.

Derived terms

• gesten
• gestenen
• gestyng

Descendants

• English: guest
• Scots: guest

References

• “gest (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-26.

Etymology 2

From Old French geste.

Noun

gest

1. Alternative form of geste (“tale”)

Etymology 3

From Old French geste.

Noun

gest

1. Alternative form of geste (“tribe”)

Etymology 4

From gest (“guest”, noun).

Verb

gest

1. Alternative form of gesten (“to host a guest”)

Etymology 5

From geste (“tale”, noun).

Verb

gest

1. Alternative form of gesten (“to read poetry”)

Etymology 6

From Old English ġist.

Noun

gest

1. Alternative form of yest (“beer foam”)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin gestus, via French geste

Noun

gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gester, definite plural gestene)

1. a gesture

References

• “gest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin gestus, via French geste

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛst/

Noun

gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gestar, definite plural gestane)

1. a gesture

References

• “gest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gaistaz.

Noun

gēst m

1. A soul, spirit, breath

Declension

Declension of gēst (masculine a-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	gēst	gēstos
accusative	gēst	gēstos
genitive	gēstes	gēstō
dative	gēste	gēstum
instrumental	—	—

Descendants

• Middle Low German: gēst, geist
  • Low German: geest

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛst/

• audio:

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Noun

gest m inan

1. gesture

Declension

Declension of gest

	singular	plural
nominative	gest	gesty
genitive	gestu	gestów
dative	gestowi	gestom
accusative	gest	gesty
instrumental	gestem	gestami
locative	geście	gestach
vocative	geście	gesty

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Romanian

Etymology

From French geste.

Noun

gest n (plural gesturi)

1. gesture

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɧɛst/

• Audio:

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Noun

gest c

1. a gesture; a motion of the hands

   gäster med gester

   guests with gestures (title of a Swedish TV show)

2. a gesture; a symbolic action, a signal

Declension

Declension of gest
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	gest	gesten	gester	gesterna
Genitive	gests	gestens	gesters	gesternas

Related terms

• gestik
• gestikulation
• gestikulera
• gestikulering
• gestisk
• gestuell

Anagrams

• gets, steg, tegs

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛst/

Verb

gest

1. Soft mutation of cest.