τριβή
Ancient Greek
FWOTD – 17 June 2015
Etymology
From τρίβω (tríbō, “rub, grind”) + -η (-ē).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tri.bɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /triˈbe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /triˈβi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /triˈvi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /triˈvi/
Noun
τρῐβή • (tribḗ) f (genitive τρῐβῆς); first declension
- a rubbing down, wearing away, wasting
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon 465
- Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 943
- wear and tear
- practice, as opposed to theory
- Hippocrates, Collected Works 25.43
- Xenophon, Anabasis 5.6.15
- 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
- that about which one is busied, the object of care, anxiety, love (compare Latin cura)
- Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 749
- (of time) a spending
- Sophocles, Antigone 1078, (Compare Fragments 586)
- Plato, The Republic 493B
- Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 639
- Aristophanes, The Birds 156
- 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 | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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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, 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
Noun
τριβή • (triví) f (plural τριβές)
- friction (mechanical resistance)
- Antonym: αντιτριβή (antitriví)
- wear (resulting from friction)
- friction (conflict)
Declension
declension of τριβή
case \\ number | singular | plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | τριβή • | τριβές • |
genitive | τριβής • | τριβών • |
accusative | τριβή • | τριβές • |
vocative | τριβή • | τριβές • |
Further reading
τριβή on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el