This adjective describes the state of pregnancy, literally 'having within' (from the root meaning 'to conceive'). Luke uses it in 2:5 to describe Mary traveling to Bethlehem while pregnant with Jesus. The multilingual evidence shows remarkable consistency (English 'pregnant', Spanish 'encinta', French 'enceinte'), all conveying this physiological state. Classical sources confirm it applied to both humans and animals, and even metaphorically to the Trojan horse as 'pregnant with silence,' showing the word's semantic range from literal to figurative containment.