τρίβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τρίβω (tríbō, “rub, grind”).

Pronunciation

Noun

τρῐ́βος • (tríbos) 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, On Joints 783, (Compare 822)
3. (figuratively) practice, use
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Collected Works 822E
   1. delay
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 197
4. bodily exercise
   • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Alexipharmaca 592

Inflection

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, 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.