gesti

See also: gestì

Esperanto

Etymology

gesto + -i.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

gesti (present gestas, past gestis, future gestos, conditional gestus, volitive gestu)

  1. (intransitive) to gesture

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛstɪ

Noun

gesti

  1. indefinite dative singular of gestur
  2. indefinite accusative plural of gestur

Italian

Noun

gesti m pl

  1. plural of gesto
  2. (archaic, plural only) exploits, adventures

Latin

Participle

gestī

  1. nominative masculine plural of gestus
  2. genitive masculine singular of gestus
  3. genitive neuter singular of gestus
  4. vocative masculine plural of gestus

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡʲɛsʲtʲɪ/

Etymology 1

Verb

gèsti (third-person present tense geñda, third-person past tense gẽdo)[1]

  1. (intransitive) to go bad
    1. (to go out of order):
    2. (to rot):[2]
      gedęs medis - a rotten tree
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) to go degenerated
    Žmogus, nieko nedirbdamas, genda.[1]
    Without working, a human goes degenerated.
Conjugation
Synonyms
  • (to go bad): dūlėti, pablogėti, pūti
Derived terms

(Nouns)

  • gedimas m

(Verbs)

  • gadinti
See also

Etymology 2

Verb

gèsti (third-person present tense gę̃sta, third-person past tense gẽso)

  1. (intransitive) to go out (to go extinguished)
    ugnis gęsta - fire goes out
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) to be blurred, to become dim[2]
Conjugation
Synonyms
  • (to go out): blėsti, slopti
Derived terms

(Nouns)

  • gesìmas m

(Verbs)

  • gesyti
Idioms
  • užgesti kaip žvakė

Anagrams

References

  1. “gesti” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  2. Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
  3. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1315.
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