ὄλισβος

English (LSJ)

ὁ, leather dildo, leather penis, dildo, artificial penis, olisbos, baubon, penis coriaceus, Cratin.316, Ar.Lys.109, Fr.320.13. From ὀλισθεῖν ("to slip, glide").

German (Pape)

[Seite 323] ὁ, ein von Leder nachgemachtes männliches Glied; Ar. Lys. 1096 Cratin. bei Ath. XV, 676 f.

Frisk Etymological English

Grammatical information: m.
Meaning: penis coriaceus [ = of leather]' (com., Herod.).
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
Etymology: Obcene word with β-sufflx; after other familiar and vulgar words transformed from ὄλισθος(?); Chantraine Form. 262, Schwyzer 496)? The word will be Pre-Greek.

Frisk Etymology German

ὄλισβος: {ólisbos}
Grammar: m.
Meaning: penis coriaceus (Kom., Herod.).
Etymology : Obszönes Wort mit β-Sufflx; nach anderen familiären und vulgären Wörtern aus ὄλισθος umgebildet (Chantraine Form. 262, Schwyzer 496)?
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Wikipedia EN

A woman with a dildo. Red figure amphora attributed to the Flying-Angel Painter c. 490 BC; City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts

Dildos may be seen in some examples of ancient Greek vase art. Some pieces show their use in group sex or in solitary female masturbation. One vessel, of about the sixth century BCE, depicts a scene in which a woman bends over to perform oral sex on a man, while another man is about to thrust a dildo into her anus.

They are mentioned several times in Aristophanes' comedy of 411 BCE, Lysistrata.

LYSISTRATA And so, girls, when fucking time comes… not the faintest whiff of it anywhere, right? From the time those Milesians betrayed us, we can't even find our eight-fingered leather dildos. At least they'd serve as a sort of flesh-replacement for our poor cunts… So, then! Would you like me to find some mechanism by which we could end this war?

Herodas' short comic play, Mime VI, written in the 3rd century BCE, is about a woman called Metro, anxious to discover from a friend where she recently acquired a dildo.

METRO I beg you, don't lie, dear Corrioto: who was the man who stitched for you this bright red dildo?

She eventually discovers the maker to be a man called Kerdon, who hides his trade by the front of being a cobbler, and leaves to seek him out. Metro and Kerdon are main characters in the next play in the sequence, Mime VII, when she visits his shop.

Page duBois, a classicist and feminist theorist, suggests that dildos were present in Greek art because the ancient Greek male imagination found it difficult to conceive of sex taking place without penetration. Therefore, female masturbation or sex between women required an artificial phallus to be used. Greek dildos were often made out of leather stuffed with wool in order to give it varying degrees of thickness and firmness. They were often lubricated with olive oil, and used for sexual practice and other activities. The Greeks were also one of the first groups to use the term “toy” in reference to a dildo.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ὄλισβος: σκύτινον ἀνδρικὸν αἰδοῖον, penis coriaceus, Κρατῖν. ἐν Ἀδήλ. 78, Ἀριστοφ. Λυσ. 109, Ἀποσπ. 309. 13.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

ὄλισβος: ὁ phallus coriaceus Arph.

Translations

dildo

Arabic: قَضِيب اِصْطِنَاعِيّ‎; Armenian: արհեստական առնանդամ; Middle Armenian: զուպայ; Belarusian: фалаімітатар; Bengali: ডিলডো, ডিল্ডো; Bulgarian: изкуствен пенис, дилдо, фалос; Catalan: consolador, olisbe, godomací; Chinese Mandarin: 假陰莖, 假阴茎,假雞巴, 假鸡巴, 按摩棒; Min Nan: 角車, 假膦鳥; Czech: robertek, dildo; Danish: dildo, vibrator; Dutch: dildo, vibrator; Esperanto: gadmeso; Faroese: dildo, vibratorur; Finnish: dildo, hieromasauva; French: godemichet, gode, phallus artificiel, olisbos, dildo, miché, michet; German: Dildo, Plastikschwanz; Greek: όλισβος; Ancient Greek: ὄλισβος, γέρρον, βαυβών; Hindi: डिल्डो; Irish: bod bréige; Italian: dildo, vibratore; Japanese: 張形, ディルド; Korean: 딜도, 모조남근; Latin: fascinum; Macedonian: дилдо, вештачки пенис; Norwegian Bokmål: dildo; Nynorsk: dildo; Ottoman Turkish: مچاچنك‎; Polish: dildo, jebadło; Portuguese: dildo, consolo; Romanian: dildo; Russian: фаллоимитатор, дилдо, самотык; Serbo-Croatian: dildo; Spanish: consolador; Swedish: dildo, löspenis; Turkish: dildo, zıbık; Ukrainian: фалоімітатор; Welsh: cala goeg