τριβή

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

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

• “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.

τριβή • (triví) f (plural τριβές)

1. friction (mechanical resistance)

   Antonym: αντιτριβή (antitriví)

2. wear (resulting from friction)
3. friction (conflict)

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