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- Latin · learned borrowing fromincestus
- English todayincest
Learned borrowing from Latin incestus. Displaced Old English mǣġhǣmed (literally “relative-sex”). Doublet of inchaste.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
incest
in·cestToday it means: Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo. Full definition →
Latin incestus