gestation
Etymology
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Etymology
From Latin gestatio.
Pronunciation Noungestation
- The period of time during which an animal or human offspring physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.
- The process of development of a plan or idea.
- 1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams: Avon Books, page 149:
- It was to a conversation with another friend who had for many years been familiar with all my writings during the period of their gestation, just as I had been with his.
- French: gestation
- German: Reifung, Heranreifen
- Italian: gestazione
- Portuguese: gestação
- Russian: бере́менность
- Spanish: gestación
- Portuguese: gestação
- Russian: вына́шивание
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