gestation

gestation

English

Etymology

From Latin gestatio.

Pronunciation

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

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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, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 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

• gestation period

Translations

period of time a fetus develops inside mother's body — See also translations at 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) German: Reifung f, Heranreifen n Greek: κυοφορία (el) f (kyoforía) Haitian Creole: jestasyon Hungarian: gesztáció Ido: gravideso (io) Indonesian: gestasi Italian: gestazione (it) f Kazakh: буаздық (buazdyq) Macedonian: бременост f (bremenost) 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) 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• gestation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

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French

Etymology

From Latin gestātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

gestation f (plural gestations)

1. gestation

Derived terms

• gestation pour autrui
• gestationnel

Further reading

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