rub

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

verb transitive

P. and V. τρίβειν.

smear: Ar. and P. ἀλείφειν, P. ἐπαλείφειν, Ar. παραλείφειν, V. χρίειν, προχρίειν; see anoint.

rub against. rubbing flint against flint I produced with pain a dim spark: V. ἀλλ' ἐν πέτροισι πέτρον ἐκτρίβων μόλις ἔφην' ἄφαντον φῶς (Sophocles, Philoctetes 296).

rub away: P. and V. τρίβειν, Ar. and P. κατατρίβειν.

rub down (as a horse): Ar. and P. καταψῆν (Xen.), P. and V. ψήχειν (Xen. also Ar.), V. καταψήχειν, κτενίζειν.

rub off: Ar. and V. ἀποψῆν; see wipe away.

rub out: P. and V. ἐξαλείφω, ἐξαλείφειν, P. ἀπαλείφειν.

erase: P. ἐκκολάπτειν; see erase.

hard to rub out, adj.: P. δυσέκνιπτος, V. δύσνιπτος.

rub up, polish: P. λαμπρύνεσθαι (Xen.).

substantive

rubbing: P. τρῖψις, ἡ.

Met., difficulty: P. and V. ἀπορία, ἡ; see difficulty.