gestate

Back-formation from gestation.

gestate (third-person singular simple present gestates, present participle gestating, simple past and past participle gestated)

1. To carry offspring in the uterus from conception to delivery.
2. (by analogy) To develop an idea.

to develop an idea

• 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, Penguin, paperback edition, page 112

  Philip wondered at that five-year gap. Perhaps it simply proved that a work of genius takes longer to gestate than a work of mere competent brilliance.

• gestation

• tagetes

gestāte

1. vocative masculine singular of gestātus