incesto

From Latin incestus.

• IPA^(key): /inˈt͡sesto/

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• Rhymes: -esto
• Syllabification: in‧ces‧to

incesto (uncountable, accusative inceston)

1. incest

   Synonym: sangadulto

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin incestus.

• IPA^(key): /inˈt͡ʃɛs.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛsto
• Hyphenation: in‧cè‧sto

incesto m (plural incesti)

1. incest

• incestuoso

• censito, cestino, cestinò, cestoni, contesi, costine, nocesti

From incestus (“polluted, defiled”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪŋˈkɛs.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛs.to]

incestō (present infinitive incestāre, perfect active incestāvī, supine incestātum); first conjugation

1. to pollute, defile
2. to dishonor, disgrace

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

incestō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of incestus

• “incesto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “incesto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “incesto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin incestus.

• Hyphenation: in‧ces‧to

incesto m (plural incestos)

1. incest (sexual relations between close relatives)

• “incesto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin incestus.

• IPA^(key): /inˈθesto/ [ĩn̟ˈθes.t̪o] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /inˈsesto/ [ĩnˈses.t̪o] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -esto
• Syllabification: in‧ces‧to

incesto m (plural incestos)

1. incest

• “incesto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025