Where is the word of Lesbian come from?

Answer 1

The word "lesbian" derives from the name of the Greek island of Lesbos, where the poet Sappho lived in the sixth century BC.

Sappho wrote numerous poems, many of them about female love. Most of her work, unfortunately, was lost when the Great Library at Alexandria was destroyed. Whether she was in fact a lesbian in the modern sense is unknown, as there is some dispute as to how her writings should be interpreted; like many other ancient Greeks, she may actually have been bisexual. Her name is, nonetheless, the source of the word "sapphism" as a synonym for lesbianism.

It is unclear just how long the term "lesbian" has actually been in use in reference to homosexual women, but it appeared in print in this context for the first time in 1883, in an article about the crossdressing Lucy Ann Lobdell in the Alienist and Neurologist medical journal. It became popular during the twentieth century, especially with the rise of feminism.

Answer 2

"Sappho was the first female poet to write about her love for women and men. While this may tempt us to say that she must have been bisexual, we must understand that this is a sexual identity and therefore not applicable.

Sappho remains significant to the history of lesbians as an identity, and resided on the island of Lesbos. This is where the word lesbian comes from "

Answer 3

[Origin: 1595–1605; < L Lesbi(us) Lesbian (< Gk Lésbios, equiv. to Lésb(os) Lesbos + -ios adj. suffix) + -an; (defs. 2, 5) alluding to the poet Sappho of Lesbos, whose verse deals largely with her emotional relationships with other women]

Answer 4

The island of Lesbos.

Answer 5

from a place called Lesbos