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incest

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English

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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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Verb

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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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Dutch

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Latin incestus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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incest m (uncountable)

  1. incest
    Synonyms: bloedschande, bloedschending, bloedschennis

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French inceste, from Latin incestus.

Noun

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incest n (plural incesturi)

  1. incest

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative incest incestul incesturi incesturile
genitive-dative incest incestului incesturi incesturilor
vocative incestule incesturilor

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin incestus.

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

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ìncest m (Cyrillic spelling ѝнцест)

  1. incest

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Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv

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incest c

  1. incest
    Synonym: (dated) blodskam

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