gestation

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin gestātiō.

Pronunciation

• enPR: jĕstāshən, IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛsˈteɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

gestation (countable and uncountable, plural gestations)

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

• gestational
• gestation period
• midgestation
• multigestation
• pregestation
• uterogestation

Translations

period of time a fetus develops inside mother's body — see also pregnancy

Asturian: xestación f Basque: ernaldi Belarusian: цяжа́рнасць f (cjažárnascʹ) Bulgarian: бре́менност (bg) f (brémennost) Catalan: gestació (ca) f Czech: březost (cs) f, gravidita f Danish: svangerskab (da) n, graviditet (da) c, drægtighed (da) c (animals only) Dutch: zwangerschapstijd m, gestatie (nl) f, drachttijd m, draagtijd (nl) m Esperanto: gravedeco Finnish: raskausaika (fi) French: gestation (fr) f Galician: xestación (gl) f Georgian: ორსულობა (orsuloba), ფეხმძიმობა (pexmʒimoba), გესტაცია (gesṭacia), მაკეობა (maḳeoba) (for animals) German: Reifung (de) f, Heranreifen n Greek: κυοφορία (el) f (kyoforía) Haitian Creole: jestasyon Hindi: गर्भावस्था (hi) f (garbhāvasthā) Hungarian: gesztáció Ido: gravideso (io) Indonesian: gestasi Ingrian: raskahusaika Italian: gestazione (it) f Kazakh: буаздық (buazdyq) Macedonian: бременост f (bremenost) Malayalam: ഗർഭകാലം (ml) (gaṟbhakālaṁ) Marathi: सगर्भता (sagarbhatā) Norwegian: Bokmål: svangerskap n, graviditet m, drektighet (no) m or f (animals only) Nynorsk: drektigheit Occitan: gestacion (oc) f Polish: ciąża (pl) f Portuguese: gestação (pt) f Romanian: gestație (ro) f Russian: бере́менность (ru) f (berémennostʹ), вына́шивание (ru) n (vynášivanije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: трудно̀ћа f, бремѐнито̄ст f, гестација f Roman: trudnòća f, bremènitōst (sh) f, gestacija f Sicilian: gistazzioni m Slovak: brezivosť f, gravidita f, gestácia f Slovene: nosečnost (sl) f Spanish: gestación (es) f Swedish: dräktighet (sv) c (animals), graviditet (sv) c (humans) Ukrainian: вагі́тність (uk) f (vahítnistʹ) Vietnamese: thai kì Walloon: poirtêye (wa) f

process of development of a plan or idea

Catalan: gestació (ca) f Finnish: kehittely (fi) Georgian: შემუშავება (šemušaveba), გააზრება (gaazreba) Portuguese: gestação (pt) f Russian: вына́шивание (ru) n (vynášivanije), созрева́ние (ru) n (sozrevánije)

Further reading

• “gestation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “gestation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin gestātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

gestation f (plural gestations)

1. gestation

   gestation pour autrui ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

• gestationnel

Related terms

• gérer

Further reading

• “gestation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.