Etymograph

English

incest

Incest comes from Latin incestus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEincestus
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1981incest

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEincestus
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1981incest

Earliest quotation: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology: “For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is…”

Every English word from Latin incestus

Today it means

noun Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin incestus / incest

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