gesture: [15] Originally, a person’s gesture was their ‘bearing’, the way they ‘carried’ themselves: ‘He was a knight of yours full true, and comely of gesture’, Sir Cleges 1410. But by the 16th century it was well on its way via ‘bodily movement’ to ‘bodily movement conveying a particular message’. The word came from medieval Latin gestūra, a derivative of Latin gerere ‘carry, conduct oneself, act’. A parallel derivative was gestus ‘action’ (ultimate source of English jest and jester), whose diminutive gesticulus produced English gesticulate [17]. => gestation, gesticulate, jest, jester
gesture (n.)
early 15c., "manner of carrying the body," from Medieval Latin gestura "bearing, behavior, mode of action," from Latin gestus "gesture, carriage, posture" (see gest). Restricted sense of "a movement of the body or a part of it, intended to express a thought or feeling," is from 1550s; figurative sense of "action undertaken in good will to express feeling" is from 1916.
gesture (v.)
1540s, from gesture (n.). Related: Gestured; gesturing.
例文
1. Their handshake appeared to be a gesture of reconciliation.
彼らの握手は和解の意味のようだ。
2.He put his hand under herchin in an almost paternal gesture .
彼は父親に近い姿で彼女のあごを手で支えている。
3.She bowed her head in a gesture somehow reminiscent of royalty.
彼女の頭を下げる姿勢は皇室の風格を思い出させる。
4.They expected a reciprocal gesture before more hostages could be freed.
より多くの人質が自由を得る前に、彼らは相手にも相応の表現があることを期待していた。
5.There is an enormous sense of mission in his speech and gesture .