"gesticulation" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /dʒɛˌstɪkjəˈleɪʃən/ Audio: En-us-gesticulation.ogg [General-American] Forms: gesticulations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Middle French gesticulation, from Latin gesticulatio. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₂eǵ-}}, {{uder|en|frm|gesticulation}} Middle French gesticulation, {{uder|en|la|gesticulatio}} Latin gesticulatio Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} gesticulation (countable and uncountable, plural gesticulations)
  1. The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to aid expression of thoughts, sentiments or passion. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act of gesticulating): жестикулиране (žestikulirane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), ръкомахане (rǎkomahane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), elehtiminen (Finnish), gesticulation [feminine] (French), xesticulación [feminine] (Galician), ჟესტიკულაცია (žesṭiḳulacia) (Georgian), Gestikulierung [feminine] (German), अंगविक्षेप (aṅgvikṣep) (Hindi), हाव-भाव (hāv-bhāv) (Hindi), gesticolio [masculine] (Italian), ആംഗികം (āṅgikaṁ) (Malayalam), gesticulação [feminine] (Portuguese), gesticulație [feminine] (Romanian), жестикуля́ция (žestikuljácija) [feminine] (Russian), gesticulación [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-gesticulation-en-noun-Eu624fYC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 36 15 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 49 31 20 Disambiguation of 'act of gesticulating': 90 9 1
  2. A gesture; a motion of the body or limbs when speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-gesticulation-en-noun-uX~KoBJT
  3. (dated) An odd or fanciful motion. Tags: countable, dated, uncountable
    Sense id: en-gesticulation-en-noun-0ZA~jzbH
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: gesticulate, gesticulative, gesture, gestural

Noun [French]

Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-gesticulation.wav Forms: gesticulations [plural]
Etymology: From gesticuler + -ation. Etymology templates: {{af|fr|gesticuler|-ation}} gesticuler + -ation Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} gesticulation f (plural gesticulations)
  1. gesticulation Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-gesticulation-fr-noun-0IuVsS0v Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, French terms suffixed with -ation

Inflected forms

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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4a/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-gesticulation.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-gesticulation.wav.ogg",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.