gestar
Portuguese, verb
gestar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to gestate (to carry offspring in the uterus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estar em gestação”.
What does gestar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gestate (to carry offspring in the uterus)
- 2
to gestate (to develop an idea)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. estar em gestação 2. gerar, dar origem a algo
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of gestar
- gesto first-person present singular
- gestei first-person preterite singular
- gestado participle past
- gestares infinitive second-person singular
- gestarmos first-person infinitive plural
- gestardes infinitive plural second-person
- gestarem infinitive plural third-person
- gestando gerund
- gestados masculine participle past
- gestada feminine participle past
- gestadas feminine participle past
- gestas indicative present second-person
- gesta indicative present singular
- gestamos first-person indicative plural
- gestais indicative plural present
- gestam indicative plural present
- gestava first-person imperfect indicative
- gestavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to gestar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gestar in Portuguese?
gestar appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).