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lesbian

/lˈɛzbiən/ 標準 頻度 4889位

意味

  1. (女性間の)同性愛の
  2. レズビアン,同性愛の女

例文

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.

出典: Wiktionary「lesbian」(CC BY-SA 4.0)

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