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gesticular

Portuguese, verb/ʒes.t͡ʃi.kuˈla(ʁ)/

gesticular is a Portuguese verb meaning “to gesticulate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer gestos”.

What does gesticular mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to gesticulate

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. fazer gestos

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 gesticular

  • gesticulo first-person present singular
  • gesticulei first-person preterite singular
  • gesticulado participle past
  • gesticulares infinitive second-person singular
  • gesticularmos first-person infinitive plural
  • gesticulardes infinitive plural second-person
  • gesticularem infinitive plural third-person
  • gesticulando gerund
  • gesticulados masculine participle past
  • gesticulada feminine participle past
  • gesticuladas feminine participle past
  • gesticulas indicative present second-person
  • gesticula indicative present singular
  • gesticulamos first-person indicative plural
  • gesticulais indicative plural present
  • gesticulam indicative plural present
  • gesticulava first-person imperfect indicative
  • gesticulavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce gesticular?

  • Brazil /ʒes.t͡ʃi.kuˈla(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [ʒes.t͡ʃi.kuˈla(h)]
  • /ʒes.t͡ʃi.kuˈla(ɾ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to gesticular

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is gesticular in Portuguese?

gesticular appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).