The corpus record — Latin

gestuosus

gestuosus · adj

full of gestures

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

gestŭōsus — Lewis & Short

gestŭōsus, a, um, adj.2. gestus, I.,

I full of gestures, full of action (post-class.): manus argutae admodum et gestuosae, Gell. 1, 5, 2: puelli incessu, App. M. 10, p. 253; cf. gressus, id. ib. 11, p. 262, 18.

In the wild

gestuosae Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.5.2
gestuosi Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.29
gestuosus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 11.11

Where it came from

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