Lysistrata

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Λυσιστράτη (Lusistrátē, “army disbander”).

Proper noun

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.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

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 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.

Further reading

Czech

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Lysistrata f

  1. Lysistrata (Ancient Greek comedy)

Declension

Declension of Lysistrata (sg-only hard feminine)
singular
nominative Lysistrata
genitive Lysistraty
dative Lysistratě
accusative Lysistratu
vocative Lysistrato
locative Lysistratě
instrumental Lysistratou

Further reading

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