gesticulor

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

gestĭcŭlor, ātus, 1,

v. dep. n. and a. [gesticulus], to make mimic or pantomimic gestures , to gesticulate (perhaps not anteAug.; cf.: gestum agere, Cic. de Or. 2, 57, 233): scissor ad symphoniam gesticulatus laceravit obsonium, Petr. 36: gesticulandi saltandique studium, Suet. Dom. 8; Front. Orat. 1: jocularia carmina lasciveque modulata, quae vulgo notuerunt, etiam gesticulatus est, he represented in pantomime , Suet. Ner. 42.—Part. in pass. signif.: gesticulati motus, pantomimic movements , Sol. 27 fin.