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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=14–37 AD, Celsus|origins=ine-pro *h₂ǵ-es-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''gestātiō''' ''f'' (genitive gestātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|gestō|-tiō|t1=to carry about]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|gestō]] is a frequentative of [[m|la|gerō|t=to carry]],^(Wiktionary) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*ges-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂ǵ-es-|t=to carry]], probably from the root of [[m|la|agō]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL reads it from Celsus on;^(TLL) Celsus lists it with massage and every kind of exercise.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is being carried about for exercise or pleasure, in a litter, carriage or boat:^(Lewis & Short 1879) Celsus says it suits long illnesses that are already declining, and ranks its kinds from the gentlest, in a boat in harbour or on a river, to a litter and, more vigorous, a carriage.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca uses it, and Suetonius says Claudius used to play dice even while being carried about.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also a place for such exercise, a drive or promenade: Pliny the Younger describes one that encloses a garden and another shaped like a circus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Actively it is a carrying, as Lactantius' carrying of infants.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of exercise by being carried.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of Claudius playing dice while carried.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 250–317 AD – Lactantius of carrying infants.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A being carried about for exercise, in a [[m|en|litter]], carriage or boat; a ride, drive.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A place for such exercise, a drive, [[m|en|promenade]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A bearing, carrying.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[gestō]]

+ * [[gerō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}