gestation

英 [d?e'ste??(?)n] 美[d??'ste??n]

暢通詞匯

1、gest- "bear, carry" + -ation.

gestation: gestation: [16] Etymologically, gestation is the period during which unborn young is ‘carried’ inside the womb. Indeed, to begin with the word meant simply ‘carrying’ in English (‘Gestacion, that is to be carried of another thing, without any travail of the body itself’, William Bullein, Bulwark of Defence Against All Sickness 1562). It comes from Latin gestātiō, a derivative of the verb gerere ‘carry, conduct oneself, act’.

This has given a wide variety of words to English, including congest, digest, gerund, gesture, jester, register, and suggest (gerund [16] comes from Latin gerundum, a variant of gerendum ‘carrying on’, the gerund of gerere).
=> congest, digest, gesture, jester, register, suggest
gestation (n.): "action or process of carrying young in the womb," 1610s, earlier (1530s) "riding on horseback, etc., as a form of exercise," from Latin gestationem (nominative gestatio) "a carrying," noun of action from past participle stem of gestare "bear, carry, gestate," frequentative of gerere (past participle gestus) "to bear, carry, bring forth" (see gest). Meaning "action or process of carrying young in the womb" is from 1610s.

1. The gestation period can be anything between 95 and 150 days.: 妊娠期從95天至150天不等。

5. The gestation period in cattle - the time that elapses between conception and birth - is about 287 days.: 牛的妊娠期(即從懷孕到生產的這段時間)大約是287天.