τρίβος

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 23 January 2014

From τρίβω (tríbō, “rub, grind”)

τρῐ́βος • (tríbos) f, m (genitive τρῐ́βου); second declension

a worn or beaten track, road, path
- Homeric Hymn to Hermes 448
- Herodotus, Histories 8.140.2, (Compare Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 6.34)
- Euripides, Orestes 1251
- Theocritus, Collected Works 25.156
- Diodorus Siculus, Library 17.49
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.13
1. (figuratively) a path of life
  - Crates of Thebes 4
  - Anacreontea 41.2
  - Palatine Anthology 5.302
  - Plutarch, Moralia 2.680F
  - Aeschylus, The Suppliants 1043
a rubbing, attrition
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon 391
- Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De Causis et Signis Diuturnorum Morborum 2.12
1. a hollow socket made by friction
  - Hippocrates, On Joints 783, (Compare 822)
(figuratively) practice, use
- Hippocrates, Collected Works 822E
1. delay
  - Aeschylus, Agamemnon 197
bodily exercise
- Nicander, Alexipharmaca 592

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

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ τρῐ́βος ho, hē tríbos	τὼ τρῐ́βω tṑ tríbō	οἱ, αἱ τρῐ́βοι hoi, hai tríboi
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς τρῐ́βου toû, tês tríbou	τοῖν τρῐ́βοιν toîn tríboin	τῶν τρῐ́βων tôn tríbōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ τρῐ́βῳ tôi, têi tríbōi	τοῖν τρῐ́βοιν toîn tríboin	τοῖς, ταῖς τρῐ́βοις toîs, taîs tríbois
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν τρῐ́βον tòn, tḕn tríbon	τὼ τρῐ́βω tṑ tríbō	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς τρῐ́βους toùs, tā̀s tríbous
Vocative	τρῐ́βε tríbe	τρῐ́βω tríbō	τρῐ́βοι tríboi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
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.

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