From Latin gestatio.

• enPR: jĕstāshən, IPA: /d͡ʒɛsˈteɪʃən/

gestation

1. The period of time during which an animal or human offspring physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.
2. 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.

• pregnancy

• French: gestation
• German: Reifung, Heranreifen
• Italian: gestazione
• Portuguese: gestação
• Russian: бере́менность
• Spanish: gestación

• Portuguese: gestação
• Russian: вына́шивание