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): /triˈbe̝/
• (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
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 465
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 943
   1. wear and tear
2. 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 260E
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 270B, (Compare Gorgias 463B)
      • 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
3. that about which one is busied, the object of care, anxiety, love (compare Latin cura)
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 749
4. (of time) a spending
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1078, (Compare Fragments 586)
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 493B
   • 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

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 •