What does the word adultery mean?

What does the word adultery mean?

Adultery is a consensual sexual relationship or encounter between someone who’s married and a person they’re not married to (who may or may not be married to someone else). In other words, it can be between two people who are both married to other people, or between a married person and a nonmarried person.

What does incest mean?

noun. sexual intercourse between closely related persons. the crime of sexual intercourse, cohabitation, or marriage between persons within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity wherein marriage is legally forbidden.

Why is it called adultery?

Although both words come from Latin and share the same first five letters, adultery is from adulterāre (“to pollute, defile, commit adultery”), a word formed ultimately from the Latin elements ad- “to, near” and alter “other.” English adult comes from adultus, which is the past participle of the Latin word adolescere ( …

What do you call a man who cheats with a married woman?

Therefore it’s master. A stud! A man is commonly called `A cheating bastard’.