τριβή

Ancient Greek[edit]

From τρίβω (tribō, “rub, grind”)

τρῐβή • (tribē) (genitive τριβῆς) f, first declension

a rubbing down, wearing away, wasting
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 465
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 943
practice, as opposed to theory
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Collected Works 25.43
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 5.6.15
1. mere practice, routine, as opposed to true art
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 260.E
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 270.B, (Compare Gorgias 463.B)
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Sophistical Refutations 33.18
  - 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, 16 15
  - 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, 1 32.1
  - 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Philopoemen 13
that about which one is busied, the object of care, anxiety, love (compare Latin cura)
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 749
(of time) a spending
- 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1078, (Compare Fragments 586)
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 493.B
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 639
- 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 156
1. delay, putting off
  - 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1.160
  - 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 385
  - 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 577
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.87
  - 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.20.9

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τριβή	τριβά	τριβαί
Genitive	τριβῆς	τριβαῖν	τριβῶν
Dative	τριβῇ	τριβαῖν	τριβαῖς
Accusative	τριβήν	τριβά	τριβάς
Vocative	τριβή	τριβά	τριβαί

τριβή in A Greek–English Lexicon by Liddell & Scott, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1940

τριβή • (triví) f (plural τριβές)

τριβή (triví)