Icelandic

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):

      išgedęs 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): irti, pūti

Related terms

• (verb) gadinti

Derived terms

Etymology 2

• From Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷes-. Cognates include Ancient Greek σβέννῡμι ‎(sbénnūmi, “to extinguish”)^[2], Sanskrit जासयति ‎(jāsáyati, “to exhaust”), Irish bás ‎(“death”), and Polish gasić ‎(“to extinguish”).

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

Conjugation

Idioms

• užgesti kaip žvakė

Related terms

• (verb) gesyti

Derived terms

See also

• blėsti

Anagrams

• segti

References

1. 1 2 “gesti” in Juozas Balčikonis [et al.] (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
2. ↑ 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, page 1315.