lesbian
意味
- (女性間の)同性愛の
- レズビアン,同性愛の女
例文
This event welcomes lesbians and other LGBTQ+ individuals.
このイベントはビアンや他のLGBTQ+の人たちも参加できます。
Why are Japanese so prejudiced against lesbians and bisexuals?
日本人はなんでそんなにビアンとかバイとかに偏見を持つのですか?
Sappho was a famous Lesbian poet.
サッポーはレスボス島の有名な女性詩人である。
語源
ギリシャのレスボス島(Lesbos)から。女性への愛を詠んだ詩人サッフォーの出身地にちなむ。
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Latin Lesbiana, from Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos) + Latin adjective suffix -iana; by reference to Sappho of Lesbos (whence also sapphist, sapphic), known for her sentimental poems about women. This sense of the word may have been borrowed from, or influenced by, the German cognate lesbisch, where it is found in medical literature from the 1830s.