gésine
French, noun/ʒe.zin/
gésine is spelled G-É-S-I-N-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 98 million words in written French, the 308,115th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gésine is a French feminine noun meaning “childbirth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État d’une femme, ou de la femelle d’un mammifère, sur le point d’accoucher. → voir en gésine”.
What does gésine mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicfemininechildbirth
- 2
archaicfemininegenesis, creation
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État d’une femme, ou de la femelle d’un mammifère, sur le point d’accoucher. → voir en gésine
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of gésine
- gésines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gésine?
- /ʒe.zin/
- \ʒe.zin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is gésine in French?
gésine appears about once in every 98 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).