Lysistrata

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English

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek Λυσιστράτη (Lusistrátē, army disbander).

Proper noun

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Lysistrata

  1. 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.

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Noun

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Lysistrata (plural Lysistratas)

  1. 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.

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Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λυσιστράτη (Lusistrátē, army disbander).

Proper noun

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Lysistrata f

  1. Lysistrata (Ancient Greek comedy)

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Further reading

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  • Lysistrata”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)