Lysistrata
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ancient Greek Λυσιστράτη (Lusistrátē, “army disbander”)
Proper noun
[edit]Lysistrata
- A comedy by Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War by denying men sex.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Ancient Greek comedy
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Noun
[edit]Lysistrata (plural Lysistratas)
- A woman who withholds sex in order to get her way.
- Stan Steiner, quoted in: 1993, Jane Caputi, Gossips, Gorgons and Crones: The Fates of the Earth (page 225)
- Lysistratas among the Indian [Iroquois] women proclaimed a boycott on lovemaking and childbearing.
- 2020, Helen Morales, Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths:
- Despite all this, the Western media framed these women as modern-day Lysistratas.
- Stan Steiner, quoted in: 1993, Jane Caputi, Gossips, Gorgons and Crones: The Fates of the Earth (page 225)
Further reading
[edit]- “Lysistrata”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Lysistrata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λυσιστράτη (Lusistrátē, “army disbander”).
Proper noun
[edit]Lysistrata f
- Lysistrata (Ancient Greek comedy)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Lysistrata (sg-only hard feminine)
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Lysistrata |
| genitive | Lysistraty |
| dative | Lysistratě |
| accusative | Lysistratu |
| vocative | Lysistrato |
| locative | Lysistratě |
| instrumental | Lysistratou |
Further reading
[edit]- Lysistrata in Internetová jazyková příručka
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