gestu

gestu is a Latin form of gero, meaning “carry, bear; do, carry on”.

It can also be a form of gestus, “movement of the limbs, bodily action, carriage, gesture”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun or supine dative singular neuter.

Found 70 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.145: … s artibus, quarum iudicium est oculorum, in pictis fictis caelatisque formis, in corporum etiam motione atque gestu multa cernunt subtilius, colorum etiam et figurarum †tum venustatem atque ordinem et ut ita dicam decentiam o …

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.