# gesti
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈʒes.ti]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒes.ti]

### Verb

gesti
* inflection of gestar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Esperanto
### Etymology

gesto +‎ -i.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

gesti (present gestas, past gestis, future gestos, conditional gestus, volitive gestu)
* (intransitive) to gesture

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɛstɪ

### Noun

gesti
* indefinite dative singular of gestur
* indefinite accusative plural of gestur

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛ.sti/
* Rhymes: -ɛsti
* Hyphenation: gè‧sti

### Noun

gesti m pl
* plural of gesto

### Noun

gesti m pl (plural only)
* (archaic, plural only) exploits, adventures

### Anagrams

* Stige

## Latin
### Participle

gestī
* inflection of gestus:
** nominative/vocative masculine plural
** genitive masculine/neuter singular

## Lithuanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡʲɛsʲtʲɪ/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)edʰ- (“to smell”), see also Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬌𐬧𐬙𐬌 (ga$^i$ṇti, “stench”), 𐬛𐬎𐬲𐬔𐬀𐬌𐬧𐬙𐬌 (dužga$^i$ṇti, “smelling badly”), Sogdian γnt (“stench”), Persian گند (gand, “stench”). Compare the first element of gadinti orą (“to fart”).

#### Verb

gèsti (third-person present tense geñda, third-person past tense gẽdo)
* (intransitive) to go bad
** (to go out of order):
** (to rot):
    išgedęs medis - a rotten tree
* (intransitive, figuratively) to go degenerated
    Žmogus, nieko nedirbdamas, genda.
       Without working, a human goes degenerated.

##### Synonyms

* (to go bad): dūlėti, pablogėti, pūti

##### Derived terms

* apgesti
* (diminutive) gedinėti
* išgesti
* nugesti
* pagesti
* pergesti
* sugesti
(Nouns)
* gedimas m

##### Related terms

(Verbs)
* gadinti

##### See also

* (to go bad): gižti

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷes-. Cognates include Ancient Greek σβέννῡμι (sbénnūmi, “to extinguish”), 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)
* (intransitive) to go out (to go extinguished)
    ugnis gęsta - fire goes out
* (intransitive, figuratively) to be blurred, to become dim

##### Synonyms

* (to go out): blėsti, slopti

##### Derived terms

* apgesti
* gesinti
* išgesti
* prigesti
* užgesti
(Nouns)
* gesìmas m

##### Related terms

(Verbs)
* gesyti

##### Idioms

* užgesti kaip žvakė

### References

* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “466-467”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 466-467
* 1 2 “gesti” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
* 1 2 Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
* ↑ 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.

### Anagrams

* segti

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from English guest.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

gesti class IX (plural gesti class X)
* guesthouse