inceste
French
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin incestus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.sɛst/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛst
Noun
inceste m (plural incestes)
- incest (sexual relations between people legally unable to marry, especially close relatives)
Related terms
- incestueux
Descendants
- → Romanian: incest
Further reading
- “inceste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- insecte
Latin
Etymology 1
From incestus + -e.
Adverb
inceste (comparative incestius, superlative incestissime)
- impiously, sinfully, wickedly, in a profane manner
- incestuously
- infamously
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
inceste
- vocative masculine singular of incestus
References
- “inceste”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inceste”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
- inceste in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette