τριβή
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From τρίβω (tríbō, “rub, grind”) + -η (-ē).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
τρῐβή • (tribḗ) f (genitive τρῐβῆς); first declension
- a rubbing down, wearing away, wasting
- practice, as opposed to theory
- Hippocrates, Collected Works 25.43
- mere practice, routine, as opposed to true art
- Aristotle, Sophistical Refutations 33.18
- Diodorus Siculus, 16 15
- Polybius, 1 32.1
- Plutarch, Philopoemen 13
- that about which one is busied, the object of care, anxiety, love (compare Latin cura)
- (of time) a spending
- delay, putting off
- Polybius, The Histories 1.20.9
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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[edit]
- 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.
Greek[edit]
Noun[edit]
τριβή • (triví) f (plural τριβές)
Declension[edit]
Categories:
- Ancient Greek words suffixed with -η (zero grade)
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- Greek nouns declining like 'γραμμή'