# gesta
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈʒes.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒes.ta]
* Rhymes: -esta

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

gesta f (plural gestes)
* feat, achievement, heroic deed

#### Further reading

* “gesta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “gesta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
* “gesta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “gesta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

gesta
* inflection of gestar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Icelandic
### Noun

gesta
* indefinite genitive plural of gestur

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛ.sta/
* Rhymes: -ɛsta
* Hyphenation: gè‧sta

### Noun

gesta f pl (plural only)
* (literary, humorous) deeds, exploits, achievements

### Anagrams

* stage

## Latin
### Participle

gesta
* inflection of gestus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Participle

gestā
* ablative feminine singular of gestus

### Noun

gesta n pl (genitive gestōrum); second declension
* (rare) deeds, acts, achievements
    Synonym: rēs gestae

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.
| Case | Plural |
| Nominative | gesta |
| Genitive | gestōrum |
| Dative | gestīs |
| Accusative | gesta |
| Ablative | gestīs |
| Vocative | gesta |

### References

* “gesta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “gesta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* gesta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* gesta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to detail the whole history of an affair: ordine narrare, quomodo res gesta sit (ambiguous) to gesticulate: gestum (always in the sing.) agere (ambiguous) a success; a glorious feat of arms: res fortiter feliciterque gesta (ambiguous) a success; a glorious feat of arms: res bene gesta

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From Latin genesta.

#### Alternative forms

* giesta

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʒɛs.tɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʒɛs.tɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʒɛʃ.tɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʒɛs.ta/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʒɛʃ.tɐ/

#### Noun

gesta f (plural gestas)
* (botany) broom (leguminosae shrub)
    Synonym: giesteira

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

gesta
* inflection of gestar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxesta/ [ˈxes.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -esta
* Syllabification: ges‧ta

### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

gesta f (plural gestas)
* feat, achievement, heroic deed
    Synonyms: hazaña, proeza, heroicidad

##### Derived terms

* canción de gesta, cantar de gesta
* romance de gesta

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

gesta
* inflection of gestar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “gesta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014