Lysistrata

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

• Lysistratan

Translations

Ancient Greek comedy

• Czech: Lysistrata f

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 [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.

Further reading

• “Lysistrata”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Lysistrata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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)