The story
- Latin · borrowed fromgesticulātus
- English todaygesticulate
Borrowed from Latin gesticulātus, perfect active participle of gesticulor (“to gesticulate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from gesticulus (“a mimic gesture”), diminutive of gestus (“gesture”), from gerō (“to bear, carry, perform”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.