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Headword:
*plekou=n
Adler number: pi,1722
Translated headword: to fuck
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to have sexual intercourse. From the [verb] ple/kesqai ["to twist oneself"]. "[If the] men get hard-ons and want to fuck."
Greek Original:*plekou=n: to\ sunousia/zein. para\ to\ ple/kesqai. stu/oint' a)\n a)/ndres ka)piqumoi=en plekou=n.
Notes:
The preferred form of the headword infinitive, extracted from the quotation given, is not the Suda's
plekou=n but
splekou=n. On its connotations of violence as well as vulgarity, see J. Henderson,
The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 154 #214.
cf.
delta 964.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 152 (web address 1), with scholion.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; imagery; women
Translated by: John Mulhall on 21 September 2011@00:41:36.
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