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gestatio

gestatio · f

a bearing

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Where it lives

Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
De Medicina 19 · 1.85/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Letters 8 · 1.23/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 4 · 0.34/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

gestātĭo — Lewis & Short

gestātĭo, ōnis, f.id..

I Act., a bearing, carrying: infantium gestationes, Lact. 3, 22 fin.—

II Pass. (not ante-Aug.), a being carried or conveyed about (in a litter, carriage, boat, etc.), a riding, driving or sailing for pleasure.

A Lit.: gestatio quoque longis et jam inclinatis morbis aptissima est, etc. ... Genera autem gestationis plura sunt. Lenissima est navi vel in portu vel in flumine, vehementior vel in alto navi ... vel lectica, etiamnum acrior vehiculo, Cels. 2, 15; Sen. Ep. 55: solitus etiam in gestatione ludere (aleam), Suet. Claud. 33; id. Vesp. 21.—

B Transf., a place where one is carried to take the air, a promenade, etc.: gestatio in modum circi, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 17; 2, 17, 13; Inscr. Orell. 4336; Inscr. Grut. 201, 8.

In the wild

gestatio Pliny the Younger, Letters 9.7.4
gestatione Celsus, De Medicina 2.9.p2
gestatione Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 6.55.1
gestatione Celsus, De Medicina 3.21.p3
Gestatio Pliny the Younger, Letters 2.17.14
gestatio Pliny the Younger, Letters 5.6.17

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