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gesta

gesta is a Latin form of gero, meaning “carry, bear; do, carry on”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle accusative plural neuter.

Found 375 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.40.12: Quod non fore dicto audientes neque signa laturi dicantur, nihil se ea re commoveri: scire enim, quibuscumque exercitus dicto audiens non fuerit, aut male re gesta fortunam defuisse aut aliquo facinore comperto avaritiam esse convictam.

Plautus, Persa 5.1.754: bello éxstincto, re béne gestá, integró exércitu et praésidiis,

Augustine, Epistulae 1·61: … ortem quaerentium voces audiebat sibique increpantium quod eo non invento gratis tantum perpetrassent scelus. Gesta sunt haec ab hora ferme decima usque ad noctis partem non minimam. Nemo compescere, nemo sub venire temptavit …

All forms of gero (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.