趣词词典（- 英语词根词缀词源词典）

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一、趣词词典

1、gesture 手势

2、来自词根ger, gest, 含有，带来，词源同exaggerate, gesture. 指指姿势，手势。

二、- 英语词根词缀词源词典

1、gesture

2、gesture: [15] Originally, a person’s gesture was their ‘bearing’, the way they ‘carried’ themselves: ‘He was a knight of yours full true, and comely of gesture’, Sir Cleges 1410. But by the 16th century it was well on its way via ‘bodily movement’ to ‘bodily movement conveying a particular message’. The word came from medieval Latin gestūra, a derivative of Latin gerere ‘carry, conduct oneself, act’. A parallel derivative was gestus ‘action’ (ultimate source of English jest and jester), whose diminutive gesticulus produced English gesticulate [17].=> gestation, gesticulate, jest, jester

3、gesture (n.)

4、early 15c.,"manner of carrying the body,"from Medieval Latin gestura"bearing, behavior, mode of action,"from Latin gestus"gesture, carriage, posture"(see gest). Restricted sense of"a movement of the body or a part of it, intended to express a thought or feeling,"is from 1550s; figurative sense of"action undertaken in good will to express feeling"is from 1916.

5、gesture (v.)

6、1540s, from gesture (n.). Related: Gestured; gesturing.

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