English
gestant
Gestant comes from Latin gestāns ‘bearing, carrying’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eǵ-reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gezō‘to carry, bear’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgerō‘carry, bear’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgestō‘bear, carry’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgestāns‘bearing, carrying’
- Englishearliest quotation 1851gestant
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eǵ-reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gezō‘to carry, bear’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgerō‘carry, bear’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgestō‘bear, carry’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgestāns‘bearing, carrying’
- Englishearliest quotation 1851gestant
Earliest quotation: 1851, Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “Clouds gestant with the heat.”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
act, action, active, activity, actual, agency, actor, strategy, agent, suggest, agenda, essay, acre, activate, agony, ambiguous, squat, agile, ambiguity, agility, assay, axiom, agitation, agrarian, radium, digestion, actuator, antagonist, agonist, agitate, actuation, antagonism, glucagon, samaj, cogent, inexact, digestible, agonize, actuate, stratagem, 140 more
through Latin gerō ‘carry, bear’
register, suggestion, gesture, congestion, digest, belligerent, ingestion, ingest, agger, gerund, gestion, 14 more
through Latin gestō ‘bear, carry’
Today it means
adj Having within; laden; burdened; or pregnant, gestating.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- / gestant