gesticular

gesticular (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to gesticulation.

Borrowed from Latin gesticulārī. First attested in 1864.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒəs.ti.kuˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒes.ti.kuˈlaɾ]

gesticular (first-person singular present gesticulo, first-person singular preterite gesticulí, past participle gesticulat)

1. (intransitive) to gesticulate

   Synonyms: accionar, manejar

• “gesticular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gesticular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gesticular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin gesticulārī.

• Hyphenation: ges‧ti‧cu‧lar

gesticular (first-person singular present gesticulo, first-person singular preterite gesticulei, past participle gesticulado)

1. to gesticulate

• “gesticular”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

From Latin gesticulāri.

• IPA^(key): /xestikuˈlaɾ/ [xes.t̪i.kuˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ges‧ti‧cu‧lar

gesticular (first-person singular present gesticulo, first-person singular preterite gesticulé, past participle gesticulado)

1. (intransitive) to gesticulate

• “gesticular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28