different between gestation vs gestate

English

Etymology

From Latin gestatio.

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?st?sh?n, IPA^(key): /d?es?te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

gestation (countable and uncountable, plural gestations)

1. The period of time during which an infant animal or human physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.
2. The process of development of a plan or idea.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 149:

     It was to a conversation with another friend who had for many years been familiar with all my writings during the period of their gestation, just as I had been with his.

Synonyms

• pregnancy

Derived terms

• gestation period

Translations

Further reading

• gestation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• gestation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Latin gest?ti?.

Pronunciation

Noun

gestation f (plural gestations)

1. gestation

Further reading

• “gestation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Back-formation from gestation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??s?te?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

gestate (third-person singular simple present gestates, present participle gestating, simple past and past participle gestated)

1. (intransitive) To carry offspring in the uterus from conception to delivery.
   • 2012, H. DeWayne Ashmead, Amino Acid Chelation in Human and Animal Nutrition, CRC Press (?ISBN)

     In the early 1960s, a study was conducted in which gestating rats were given diets containing the same mineral content of mineral salts or amino acid chelates.

2. (by extension, intransitive) To develop an idea.

Related terms

• gestation

Translations

Anagrams

• tagetes

Latin

Participle

gest?te

1. vocative masculine singular of gest?tus