English
gestion
Gestion may come from French gestion ‘management, control’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentgestion‘management, control’uncertain
- Englishtodaygestion
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentgestion‘management, control’uncertain
- Englishtodaygestion
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
act, actual, active, activity, agency, actor, action, agent, strategy, suggest, agenda, essay, acre, activate, ambiguous, squat, agile, ambiguity, agony, agility, assay, agrarian, antagonist, radium, axiom, actuator, antagonism, agitation, agitate, cogent, agonist, antagonize, samaj, inexact, glucagon, actuate, stratagem, digestible, exigent, agonize, 142 more
through Latin gerō ‘to carry’
register, gesture, digest, belligerent, progesterone, ingest, agger, gestation, gerund, 17 more
Today it means
noun The act of managing, conducting or administrating something.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French gestion / gestion