τριβή

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 17 June 2015

Etymology

From τρίβω (tríbō, “rub, grind”) +‎ -η (-ē).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tri.bɛ̌ː/ → /triˈβi/ → /triˈvi/

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tri.bɛ̌ː/

(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /triˈbe/

(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /triˈβi/

(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /triˈvi/

(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /triˈvi/

Noun

τρῐβή • (tribḗ) f (genitive τρῐβῆς); first declension

1. a rubbing down, wearing away, wasting
   • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 465
   • Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 943
2. practice, as opposed to theory
   • Hippocrates, Collected Works 25.43
   • Xenophon, Anabasis 5.6.15
   1. mere practice, routine, as opposed to true art
      • Plato, Phaedrus 260E
      • Plato, Phaedrus 270B, (Compare Gorgias 463B)
      • Aristotle, Sophistical Refutations 33.18
      • Diodorus Siculus, 16 15
      • Polybius, 1 32.1
      • Plutarch, Philopoemen 13
3. that about which one is busied, the object of care, anxiety, love (compare Latin cura)
   • Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 749
4. (of time) a spending
   • Sophocles, Antigone 1078, (Compare Fragments 586)
   • Plato, The Republic 493B
   • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 639
   • Aristophanes, The Birds 156
   1. delay, putting off
      • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1.160
      • Aristophanes, The Acharnians 385
      • Sophocles, Antigone 577
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.87
      • Polybius, The Histories 1.20.9

Inflection

First declension of ἡ τρῐβή; τῆς τρῐβῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τρῐβή hē tribḗ	τὼ τρῐβᾱ́ tṑ tribā́	αἱ τρῐβαί hai tribaí
Genitive	τῆς τρῐβῆς tês tribês	τοῖν τρῐβαῖν toîn tribaîn	τῶν τρῐβῶν tôn tribôn
Dative	τῇ τρῐβῇ têi tribêi	τοῖν τρῐβαῖν toîn tribaîn	ταῖς τρῐβαῖς taîs tribaîs
Accusative	τὴν τρῐβήν tḕn tribḗn	τὼ τρῐβᾱ́ tṑ tribā́	τᾱ̀ς τρῐβᾱ́ς tā̀s tribā́s
Vocative	τρῐβή tribḗ	τρῐβᾱ́ tribā́	τρῐβαί tribaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• τριβή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τριβή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τριβή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dalliance idem, page 193.
  • darling idem, page 195.
  • delay idem, page 207.
  • expenditure idem, page 293.
  • hesitation idem, page 398.
  • pause idem, page 599.
  • pet idem, page 609.
  • practice idem, page 631.
  • procrastination idem, page 644.
  • routine idem, page 723.
  • slowness idem, page 786.
  • stop idem, page 820.
  • tardiness idem, page 855.
  • time idem, page 875.
  • vacillation idem, page 942.
  • waiting idem, page 959.
  • wavering idem, page 968.

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Greek

Noun

τριβή • (triví) f (plural τριβές)

1. friction (rubbing), (force)
2. friction (conflict)
3. wear from friction or rubbing

Declension

declension of τριβή

	singular	plural
nominative	τριβή •	τριβές •
genitive	τριβής •	τριβών •
accusative	τριβή •	τριβές •
vocative	τριβή •	τριβές •