τρίβος

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 23 January 2014

Etymology

From τρίβω (tríbō, “rub, grind”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /trí.bos/ → /ˈtri.βos/ → /ˈtri.vos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /trí.bos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.bos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.βos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.vos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtri.vos/

Noun

τρῐ́βος • (trĭ́bos) f or m (genitive τρῐ́βου); second declension

1. a worn or beaten track, road, path
   • 7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Hermes 448
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.140.2, (Compare Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 6.34)
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1251
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 25.156
   • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 17.49
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.13
   1. (figuratively) a path of life
      • Crates of Thebes 4
      • Anacreontea 41.2
      • Palatine Anthology 5.302
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.680F
      • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 1043
2. a rubbing, attrition
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 391
   • Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De Causis et Signis Diuturnorum Morborum 2.12
   1. a hollow socket made by friction
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, On Joints 783, (Compare 822)
3. (figuratively) practice, use
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Τοῦ μεγάλου Ἱπποκράτους πάντων τῶν ἰατρῶν κορυφαίου τὰ εὑρισκόμενα. Magni Hippocratis medicorum omnium facile principis, opera omnia quæ extant. 822E
   1. delay
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 197
4. bodily exercise
   • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Alexipharmaca 592

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ τρῐ́βος; τοῦ, τῆς τρῐ́βου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ τρῐ́βος ho, hē trĭ́bos	τὼ τρῐ́βω tṑ trĭ́bō	οἱ, αἱ τρῐ́βοι hoi, hai trĭ́boi
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς τρῐ́βου toû, tês trĭ́bou	τοῖν τρῐ́βοιν toîn trĭ́boin	τῶν τρῐ́βων tôn trĭ́bōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ τρῐ́βῳ tôi, têi trĭ́bōi	τοῖν τρῐ́βοιν toîn trĭ́boin	τοῖς, ταῖς τρῐ́βοις toîs, taîs trĭ́bois
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν τρῐ́βον tòn, tḕn trĭ́bon	τὼ τρῐ́βω tṑ trĭ́bō	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς τρῐ́βους toùs, tā̀s trĭ́bous
Vocative	τρῐ́βε trĭ́be	τρῐ́βω trĭ́bō	τρῐ́βοι trĭ́boi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “τρίβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τρίβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τρίβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5147 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • foot-path idem, page 334.
  • path idem, page 598.
  • road idem, page 718.
  • track idem, page 885.
  • way idem, page 968.