Etymograph

English

egesta

Egesta comes from Latin ēgesta ‘discharged 􂀿matter etc.􂁀’, from ēgerō ‘to carry, bear or bring out or away’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eǵ-1reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gezō1‘to carry, bear’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgerō1‘to carry, to bear’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēgerō2as to discharge; to carry out‘to carry, bear or bring out or away’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēgestum2‘􂀿that which is􂁀 discharged’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēgesta2‘discharged 􂀿matter etc.􂁀’plural of ēgestum
  7. Englishtodayegesta2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin egero
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English egesta

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂eǵ-Wiktionary, Latin egeroreconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gezōWiktionary, Latin egero‘to carry, bear’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgerōWiktionary, Latin egero‘to carry, to bear’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēgerōWiktionary, English egestaas to discharge; to carry out‘to carry, bear or bring out or away’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēgestumWiktionary, English egesta‘􂀿that which is􂁀 discharged’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēgestaWiktionary, English egesta‘discharged 􂀿matter etc.􂁀’plural of ēgestum
  7. EnglishtodayegestaWiktionary, English egesta

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

act, action, active, activity, actual, actor, agency, agent, strategy, suggest, agenda, essay, acre, activate, agony, ambiguous, squat, agile, ambiguity, agility, assay, agrarian, axiom, agitation, antagonist, radium, actuator, digestion, antagonism, agonist, cogent, actuation, agitate, antagonize, glucagon, samaj, inexact, digestible, agonize, actuate, 138 more

through Latin gerō ‘to carry, to bear’

register, suggestion, gesture, congestion, digest, belligerent, progesterone, ingestion, gestation, ingest, agger, gerund, gestion, 13 more

Today it means

noun The waste which is carried out from a cell or an organism; the result of egestion; excrement

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “egesta”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin egero. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- / egesta

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