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incestus
incestus
Latin
Adjective
incestus m (feminine incesta, neuter incestum); first/second declension
- unclean, impure, polluted, defiled, sinful, unrighteous, criminal
- unchaste, lewd, incestuous, lustful
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | incestus | incesta | incestum | incestī | incestae | incesta | |
| genitive | incestī | incestae | incestī | incestōrum | incestārum | incestōrum | |
| dative | incestō | incestō | incestīs | ||||
| accusative | incestum | incestam | incestum | incestōs | incestās | incesta | |
| ablative | incestō | incestā | incestō | incestīs | |||
| vocative | inceste | incesta | incestum | incestī | incestae | incesta | |
Synonyms
- (impure): adulter, adulterīnus, cinaedicus, immundus, impudīcus, impūrus
Antonyms
- (impure): castus, immaculātus, incorruptus, intemerātus, pudīcus, pūrus
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
incestus m (genitive incestūs); fourth declension
Inflection
Fourth declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | incestus | incestūs |
| genitive | incestūs | incestuum |
| dative | incestuī | incestibus |
| accusative | incestum | incestūs |
| ablative | incestū | incestibus |
| vocative | incestus | incestūs |
Descendants
- Russian: инцест (incest)
References
- incestus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- incestus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “incestus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.