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incest

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Etymology edit

From Latin incestus. Displaced native Old English mǣġhǣmed (literally “relative-sex”). Doublet of inchaste.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪnsɛst/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪnsɛst

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incest (usually uncountable, plural incests)

  1. Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo; in many jurisdictions, close relatives are not allowed to marry, and incest is a crime.
    Genetic problems caused by incest are thought to have plagued many royal families in the Middle Ages.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12:
      For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.
    • 2005, George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire, page 225:
      He was only Craster's whelp, an abomination born of incest, not the son of the King-beyond-the-Wall.

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incest (third-person singular simple present incests, present participle incesting, simple past and past participle incested)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To engage in incestuous sexual intercourse.
    • 1994, Kathryn Carter, Interpretive Approaches to Interpersonal Communication:
      I do not want anyone to feel that my lesbianism is a result of being incested.
    • 2009, Antonino Ferro, The Analytic Field: A Clinical Concept, page 206:
      Her erotic transference ultimately devolved into a revelation that she had been consistently incested by her brother
    • 2011, Marvin Mengeling, Crows, Pete Rose, UFOs: And Other Pretty Pieces, page 2:
      […] the most powerful of that bunch of immortal giants called Titans was Cronus, who “incested” with sister Rhea, who then birthed the Olympians (Zeus and his bunch) […]

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Etymology edit

Ultimately from Latin incestus.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪn.sɛst/, (dated) /ɪnˈsɛst/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: in‧cest

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incest m (uncountable)

  1. incest
    Synonyms: bloedschande, bloedschending, bloedschennis

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from French inceste, from Latin incestus.

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incest n (plural incesturi)

  1. incest

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Declension of incest
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) incest incestul (niște) incesturi incesturile
genitive/dative (unui) incest incestului (unor) incesturi incesturilor
vocative incestule incesturilor

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin incestus.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ǐnt͡sest/
  • Hyphenation: in‧cest

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ìncest m (Cyrillic spelling ѝнцест)

  1. incest

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Declension of incest
singular plural
nominative ìncest incesti
genitive incesta ȉncēstā
dative incestu incestima
accusative incest inceste
vocative inceste incesti
locative incestu incestima
instrumental incestom incestima

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incest c

  1. incest
    Synonym: (dated) blodskam

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Declension of incest 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative incest incesten incester incesterna
Genitive incests incestens incesters incesternas

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