gestante

Italian

Noun

gestante f (plural gestanti)

1. a pregnant woman, an expectant mother

   Synonyms: donna incinta, donna gravida, donna in stato interessante

Related terms

• gestazione

Anagrams

• tangeste

Latin

Participle

gestante

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of gestāns

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒesˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒesˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʒeʃˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒesˈtɐ̃.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒɨʃˈtɐ̃.tɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɐ̃tʃi, (Portugal) -ɐ̃tɨ
• Hyphenation: ges‧tan‧te

Noun

gestante f (plural gestantes)

1. pregnant woman, expectant mother

   Synonym: grávida

Related terms

• gestação

Further reading

• “gestante”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “gestante”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xesˈtante/ [xesˈt̪ãn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: ges‧tan‧te

Adjective

gestante m or f (masculine and feminine plural gestantes)

1. expectant, gestating (pregnant)

Noun

gestante f (plural gestantes)

1. a pregnant woman

Further reading

• “gestante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025