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語源 1

Borrowed from Middle French geste. Doublet of jest.

名詞

gest (countable and uncountable, plural gests)

1. (archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:

     The tales of Robin Hood, or the gests written by Ariost the Italian in his booke intituled Orlando furioso.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Who faire them quites, as him beseemed best,
     And goodly gan discourse of many a noble gest.

2. (archaic) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
   • a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon

     And surely no Ceremonies of dedication , no not of Solomons Temple it self , are comparable to those sacred gests , whereby this place was sanctified

3. (archaic) Bearing; deportment.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24:

     through his heroic grace and honorable gest

4. (obsolete) A gesture or action.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     They did obeysaunce, as beseemed right, / And then againe returned to their restes: / The Porter eke to her did lout with humble gestes.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 36, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     more Kings and Princes have written his gestes and actions, than any other historians, of what quality soever, have registred the gests, or collected the actions of any other King or Prince that ever was […].

派生語

語源 2

A variant of gist (“resting-place”).

名詞

gest (plural gests)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of gist (“a stop for lodging or rest in a journey, or the place where this happens; a rest”).
   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     […] Yet of your Royall presence, Ile aduenture / The borrow of a Weeke. When at Bohemia / You take my Lord, Ile giue him my Commission, / To let him there a Moneth, behind the Gest / Prefix'd for's parting: yet (good-deed) Leontes, / I loue thee not a Iarre o'th' Clock, behind / What Lady she her Lord. You'le stay?

派生語

• gests (“roll reciting the several stages of a royal progress”)

アナグラム

• Gets, gets, steg, tegs

別の表記

• geste, gist, geast, gyst

発音

• IPA: /ɡɛst/, /ɡɛːst/, /ɡist/
• 韻: -ɛst

名詞

gest (plural gestes)

1. A guest, visitor; somebody staying at another's residence.
2. A customer of a hostel or inn; one that pays for accommodation.
3. An unknown person; a foreigner or outsider.
4. A (often threatening) male individual; a ominous person.
5. (figurative, rare) A male lover of a woman; a man in an unofficial intimate relationship with a woman.

派生語

• gesten
• gestenen
• gestyng

派生した語

• English: guest
• Scots: guest

参照

• “gest, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-26.

語源 2

名詞

gest

1. alternative form of geste (“tale”)
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1126-1127:

     In olde Romayn gestes may men finde
     Maurices lyf; I bere it noght in minde.

     In the old Roman histories may men find
     Maurice's life; I bear it not in mind.

   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 209-211:

     [...] Or elles it was the Grekes hors Synon,
     That broghte Troye to destruccion,
     As men may in thise olde gestes rede, [...]

     [...] Or else it was Sinon the Greek's horse,
     That brought Troy to destruction,
     As men in these old romances read, [...]

語源 3

名詞

gest

1. alternative form of geste (“tribe”)

語源 4

動詞

gest

1. alternative form of gesten (“to host a guest”)

語源 5

動詞

gest

1. alternative form of gesten (“to read poetry”)

語源 6

名詞

gest

1. alternative form of yest (“beer foam”)