/lang/ - ancient greek/latin word for rape?

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-14 8:19

Is it true the Ancient Greeks/Romans had no words to describe rape? Do the modern Greeks/Italians have words to describe rape?

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-14 12:00

No of course it's not true. The Latin word for rape is 'violo' or 'stupro', although many other words are available depending on the method of rape.
Not sure about Greek though, my Greek knowledge is very basic...

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-14 12:02

nigger

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-14 14:59

>>2
The feminists lied to me again!

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-14 15:44

Why the fuck wouldn't they? They raped people all the time in war

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-14 16:44

>>5 Exactly. And without a word for rape, how on earth would Ovid have been able to write the Metamorphoses??

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-14 16:47

As Eskimos have several words for snow, then do nigger languages have several words for rape? What about cooked chicken?

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-14 16:57

>>7
>nigger
>language

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-14 21:43

>>5
Because they didn't distinguish between normal sex and rape or so I was told.

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-15 4:35

Latin:
stuprum (noun), n. 2nd declination, "violation" [sexual too].
stupro (verb), 1st conjugation, "violate", "rape".
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stuprum#Latin

Greek:
βιασμός (noun, viasmós). Note however, this is MODERN Greek.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B2%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%BC%CF%8C%CF%82#Greek

Name: Lk 2010-10-15 6:55

Plus, Italians nowadays do have a word for rape, it's "Stupro", and it's unfortunately always on the news.

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-15 9:23

>>11
I'd love to get raped by a handsome Italian man

~gayfag~

Name: Anonymous 2010-10-15 12:08

>>8
DOO
DOO

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-13 12:18

Actually, there was a word for rape in Latin, but not a word for rape in ancient Greece. http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/node/1183

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-13 12:32

I take it back: There MAY have been a word for rape in Latin (I'm not really 100% sure about this one, but it appears that there was such a word). I am 100% sure that there was not an ancient Greek word that meant "rape" or "rapist" (I've been searching ancient Greek dictionaries and databases for a such a word for more than a year, and I haven't been able to find one yet).

ancient greek/latin word for rape?

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