τρίβος

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 23 January 2014

Etymology

From τρίβω (tríbō, “rub, grind”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /trí.bos/ → /ˈtri.βos/ → /ˈtri.vos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /trí.bos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.bos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.βos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.vos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.vos/

Noun

τρῐ́βος • (tríbos) f or m (genitive τρῐ́βου); second declension

1. a worn or beaten track, road, path
   • 7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Hermes 448
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.140.2, (Compare Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 6.34)
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1251
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 25.156
   • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 17.49
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.13
   1. (figuratively) a path of life
      • Crates of Thebes 4
      • Anacreontea 41.2
      • Palatine Anthology 5.302
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.680F
      • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 1043
2. a rubbing, attrition
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 391
   • Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De Causis et Signis Diuturnorum Morborum 2.12
   1. a hollow socket made by friction
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 783, (Compare 822)
3. (figuratively) practice, use
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Collected Works 822E
   1. delay
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 197
4. bodily exercise
   • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Alexipharmaca 592

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ τρῐ́βος; τοῦ, τῆς τρῐ́βου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ τρῐ́βος ho, hē tríbos	τὼ τρῐ́βω tṑ tríbō	οἱ, αἱ τρῐ́βοι hoi, hai tríboi
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς τρῐ́βου toû, tês tríbou	τοῖν τρῐ́βοιν toîn tríboin	τῶν τρῐ́βων tôn tríbōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ τρῐ́βῳ tôi, têi tríbōi	τοῖν τρῐ́βοιν toîn tríboin	τοῖς, ταῖς τρῐ́βοις toîs, taîs tríbois
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν τρῐ́βον tòn, tḕn tríbon	τὼ τρῐ́βω tṑ tríbō	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς τρῐ́βους toùs, tā̀s tríbous
Vocative	τρῐ́βε tríbe	τρῐ́βω tríbō	τρῐ́βοι tríboi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “τρίβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τρίβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τρίβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5147 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • foot-path idem, page 334.
  • path idem, page 598.
  • road idem, page 718.
  • track idem, page 885.
  • way idem, page 968.