• hile,hyla(obsolete)
• ylem

One of several English variants (in casuModern English, in the 17th and 18th century) for theMedieval Latinhyle, a transliteration ofAristotle’s concept ofmatter, inAncient Greekὕλη(húlē,“wood(s), material(s), matter, subject”) orπρώτη ὕλη(prṓtē húlē,“fundamental, undifferentiated matter”)

hyle (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, philosophy)matter
2. The first matter of the cosmos, from which the four elements arose, according to the doctrines of Empedocles and Aristotle.

• OED:The Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, Oxford University Press, 1989

• Heyl

FromMiddle Low Germanhǖlen, fromOld Saxon*hūwilon, fromProto-West Germanic*hūilōn.

• IPA^(key): /hyːlə/,[ˈhyːlə]

• Audio:

  (file)

hyle (past tensehylede or(unofficial)høl,past participlehylet)

1. toyell
2. tohowl
3. towail
4. toyowl
5. towhine
6. tohoot

• “hyle” inDen Danske Ordbog
• “hyle” inOrdbog over det danske Sprog

FromProto-Finnic*hülgeh. Cognates includeFinnishhylje andEstonianhüljes.

• (Ala-Laukaa)IPA^(key): /ˈhyle/,[ˈhylʲe̞]
• (Soikkola)IPA^(key): /ˈhyle/,[ˈhyle̞]
• Rhymes:-yle
• Hyphenation:hy‧le

hyle

1. seal
   • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova,Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page54:

     Hyle ono merizveeri (kuva 46).

     The seal is a marine mammal (image 46).

2. abscess ortumor on thefinger

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971)Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page75

Transliteration ofAristotle’s concept ofmatter, inAncient Greekὕλη(húlē,“wood(s), material(s), matter, subject”)orπρώτη ὕλη (“fundamental, undifferentiated matter”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈhyː.leː/,[ˈhyːɫ̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈi.le/,[ˈiːle]

hȳlē f (genitivehȳlēs);first declension

1. matter, the fundamental matter of all things,as opposing the form of all things (Aristotle’s doctrine ofmatter andformor hylomorphism); in Mediaeval Latin respectivelymateria prima andforma substantialis
2. the matter of the body, as opposing the soul or mind (Aristotle’s doctrine of the soul)
3. the first matter of the cosmos,an inaccurate interpretation of Aristotle's ἡ πρώτη ὕληormateria prima

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

• → English:hyle

• “hyle”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "hyle", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• hyle inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “hyle”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “hyle”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1848),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “hyle”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1854, 1857),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• L&S: Lewis & Short,A Latin Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1969
• See further references underὕλη(húlē).

FromMiddle Englishhielden, fromOld Englishhieldan, fromProto-West Germanic*halþijan. Cognate withEnglishhield(“to pour out”).

• IPA^(key): /hiːl/
• Homophones:heel,hele

hyle

1. topour, as liquor or rain.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page47

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