incest
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English
Etymology
From Latin incestus. Displaced native Old English mǣġhǣmed (literally “relative-sex”). Doublet of inchaste.
Pronunciation
Noun
incest (usually uncountable, plural incests)
- 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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Translations
sexual relations between close relatives
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Verb
incest (third-person singular simple present incests, present participle incesting, simple past and past participle incested)
- (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) […]
See also
Further reading
incest on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “incest”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “incest, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “incest”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “incest”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “incest” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
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Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin incestus.
Pronunciation
Noun
incest m (uncountable)
- incest
- Synonyms: bloedschande, bloedschending, bloedschennis
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French inceste, from Latin incestus.
Noun
incest n (plural incesturi)
Declension
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
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ìncest m (Cyrillic spelling ѝнцест)
Declension
Declension of incest
Swedish
Noun
incest c
Declension
| Declension of incest | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | incest | incesten | incester | incesterna |
| Genitive | incests | incestens | incesters | incesternas |
Related terms
- incestuös (“incestuous”)