different between gest vs cest

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??st/

Homophone: jest

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French geste. Doublet of jest.

Noun

gest (countable and uncountable, plural gests)

1. (obsolete) A gesture or action.
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.
   • 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

4. (archaic) bearing; deportment

Translations

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Hanmer to this entry?)

   • The pictured lives of martyr , or of saint , Or gests of valorous knight

Anagrams

• Gets, gets, steg, tegs

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin gestus, attested from the 14th century.

Noun

gest m (plural gests or gestos)

1. gesture

Related terms

• gesticular

References

Further reading

• “gest” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gest” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gest” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Icelandic

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

gest

1. indefinite accusative singular of gestur

Etymology 2

Verb

gest

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

Middle Dutch

Alternative forms

• gist

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
  • Afrikaans: gis

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 Norse gestr and Old English ?iest; both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Germanic *g?óstis. Doublet of host.

Alternative forms

• geste, gist, geast, gyst

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st/, /???st/, /?ist/
• Rhymes: -?st

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. (figuratively, 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

Noun

gest

1. Alternative form of geste (“tale”)

Etymology 3

Noun

gest

1. Alternative form of geste (“tribe”)

Etymology 4

Verb

gest

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

Etymology 5

Verb

gest

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

Etymology 6

Noun

gest

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

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.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin gestus, via French geste

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st/

Noun

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

1. a gesture

References

• “gest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Old Saxon g?st or Old High German geist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?st/, [????st]

Noun

g?st m

1. Alternative form of g?st

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gaist.

Noun

g?st m

1. A soul, spirit, breath

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: g?st, geist
  • Low German: geest

Polish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin gestura, nominative singular of gesturus (“about to carry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st/

Noun

gest m inan

1. gesture

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French geste.

Noun

gest n (plural gesturi)

1. gesture

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin gestus (“having been carried”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st/

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

Related terms

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

Anagrams

• gets, segt, steg, tegs

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st/

Verb

gest

1. Soft mutation of cest.

Mutation

English

Etymology

Latin cestus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?st/

Noun

cest (plural cests)

1. (obsolete) A woman's girdle; a cestus.
   • 1746, William Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character

     The cest of amplest power is given

Anagrams

• 'tecs, CTEs, ECTS, ETCS, Stec, TCEs, TECs, sect

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?s?st/

Noun

cest

1. genitive plural of cesta

Middle French

Etymology 1

From Old French cist.

Adjective

cest

1. masculine singular of ce used before a vowel or a mute h followed by a vowel

Descendants

• French: cet

Etymology 2

Contraction

cest

1. Alternative form of c'est

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kistu, from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek ????? (kíst?). Cognate with Old Frisian kiste, Middle Dutch kiste (Dutch kist), Old High German chista (German Kiste), Old Norse kista.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??est/

Noun

?est f

1. box; coffer

Descendants

• Middle English: cheste, chist, chiste, kist, kiste, cyst, chyst, kyst, kyste, cæste
  • English: chest
  • Scots: kist

Old French

Adjective

cest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular ceste)

1. Alternative form of cist

Welsh

Alternative forms

• cefaist (literary)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /k?sd/, [k??st]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ke?sd/, [k?e?st], /k?sd/, [k??st]

Verb

cest

1. second-person singular preterite of cael

Mutation