τριβή

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 17 June 2015

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /tribɛ͜ɛ́/

• (1st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tribéː/

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /triβí/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /triví/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tɾiví/

Noun

τρῐβή • (tribḗ) f (genitive τριβῆς); 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 τριβή, τριβῆς

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τριβή	τριβᾱ́	τριβαί
Genitive	τριβῆς	τριβαῖν	τριβῶν
Dative	τριβῇ	τριβαῖν	τριβαῖς
Accusative	τριβήν	τριβᾱ́	τριβᾱ́ς
Vocative	τριβή	τριβᾱ́	τριβαί
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

References

• 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 •