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English
Etymology
From Middle English chaste, from Old French chaste (“morally pure”), from Latin castus (“pure”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
chaste (comparative chaster, superlative chastest)
- Abstaining from immoral or unlawful sexual intercourse.
- Virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience.
- Austere, simple, undecorative.
a chaste style in composition or art
- Decent, modest, morally pure.
a chaste mind; chaste eyes
Usage notes
Married couples are often exhorted to have “chaste sex” – compare the Vatican encyclical Casti Connubii (Of Chaste Wedlock).
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
abstaining from sexual intercourse
- Belarusian: цнатлі́вы (cnatlívy)
- Bulgarian: целомъ́дрен (bg) (celomǎ́dren)
- Catalan: cast (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 貞／贞 (zh) (zhēn), 純潔／纯洁 (zh) (chúnjié), 貞節／贞节 (zh) (zhēnjié)
- Czech: cudný (cs)
- Danish: kysk (da)
- Dutch: kuis (nl)
- Esperanto: ĉasta
- Finnish: siveä (fi)
- French: chaste (fr) m or f
- German: keusch (de)
- Greek: αγνός (el) (agnós)
- Ancient: ἁγνός (hagnós)
- Hungarian: szűzies (hu)
- Italian: pudico (it) m, pudica (it) f
- Japanese: 貞淑な (ていしゅくな, teishuku na), 純潔な (ja) (じゅんけつな, junketsu na), 貞節な (ja) (ていせつな, teisetsu na)
- Latin: pudīcus
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kysk
- Nynorsk: kysk
- Occitan: cast (oc)
- Polish: cnotliwy (pl)
- Portuguese: casto (pt) m, casta (pt) f
- Romanian: cast (ro)
- Russian: целому́дренный (ru) (celomúdrennyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: čedan (sh) m
- Spanish: casto (es)
- Swedish: kysk (sv)
- Turkish: iffetli (tr), namuslu (tr)
- Ukrainian: цнотли́вий (uk) (cnotlývyj)
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- Korean: 정숙한 (jeongsukhan)
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See also
Anagrams
- 'stache, 'taches, Scheat, achest, chates, cheats, he-cats, sachet, scathe, she-cat, stache, taches, thecas
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French chaste, caste, a semi-learned term derived from Latin castus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
chaste (plural chastes)
- chaste; celibate
Related terms
Further reading
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Semi-learned term derived from Latin castus.
Adjective
chaste m (oblique and nominative feminine singular chaste)
- chaste; celibate
Related terms