The corpus record — Latin

gesticulatio

gesticulatio · f

pantomimic motion

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Where it lives

Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

gestĭcŭlātio — Lewis & Short

gestĭcŭlātio, ōnis, f.gesticulor,

I pantomimic motion, gesticulation (postAug.; syn. gestus): nec sine molli quadam digitorum gesticulatione, Suet. Tib. 68: inaffectata, App. M. 10, p. 254, 18: pronunciatio gesticulationibus molesta, Quint. 11, 3, 183.

In the wild

gesticulatione Suetonius, Tiberius 68.3
gesticulationem Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2.4.4
gesticulationibus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.183
gesticulationis Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.31
gesticulatione Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.31

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.