βινητιάω

desiderative of βινέω (binéō).

βινητιάω • (binētiáō)

1. (intransitive, vulgar) to be in a state of sexual desire; to lust after intercourse
   • 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 715:

     Λυ. βινητιῶμεν, ᾗ βράχιστον τοῦ λόγου.

     Lu. binētiômen, hēî brákhiston toû lógou.

     Lysistrata: “Let us fuck, so that the talk may be as short as possible.”

   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Mistaken Critic 27:

     κισσύβιον ἔχων ἐν τῇ χειρί, βινητιῶν Πολύφημος

     kissúbion ékhōn en tēî kheirí, binētiôn Polúphēmos

     holding a wine-cup in his hand, Polyphemus in a state of sexual arousal

   • 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipn. 13.45.55:

     περίμενε τοίνυν καὶ σύ, φησίν, ἕως ἂν οὗ βινητιάσω, καὶ τοσοῦτον λήψομαι.

     perímene toínun kaì sú, phēsín, héōs àn hoû binētiásō, kaì tosoûton lḗpsomai.

     “Then you wait as well,” he says, “until I’ve had my fuck, and I’ll take just that much.”

• As a desiderative formation, βινητιάω (binētiáō) primarily expresses a state or impulse of sexual desire rather than the act itself (LSJ).
• In comic, anecdotal, or temporally framed contexts, the verb may pragmatically imply completed intercourse.
• Strongly marked for register; common in Old Comedy and satirical or invective prose.

• “βινητιάω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βινητιάω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers