hyle

• (obsolete) hile, hyla; ylem

One of several English variants (in casu Modern English, in the 17th and 18th century) for the Medieval Latin hyle, a transliteration of Aristotle’s concept of matter, in Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood(s), material(s), matter, subject”) or πρώτη 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

From Middle Low German hǖlen, from Old Saxon *hūwilon, from Proto-West Germanic *hūwilōn, cognate with English howl, German heulen, Dutch huilen.

• IPA^(key): /hyːlə/, [ˈhyːlə]

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hyle (past tense hylede or (unofficial) høl, past participle hylet)

1. to yell
2. to howl
3. to wail
4. to yowl
5. to whine
6. to hoot

• “hyle” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “hyle” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

From Proto-Finnic *hülgeh. Cognates include Finnish hylje and Estonian hüljes.

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

hyle

1. seal
   • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, N. J. Molotsova, transl., Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 54:

     Hyle ono merizveeri (kuva 46).

     The seal is a marine mammal (image 46).

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 75

Transliteration of Aristotle’s concept of matter, in Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood(s), material(s), matter, subject”) or πρώτη ὕλη (“fundamental, undifferentiated matter”).

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

hȳlē f (genitive hȳlēs); first declension

1. matter, the fundamental matter of all things, as opposing the form of all things (Aristotle’s doctrine of matter and form or hylomorphism); in Mediaeval Latin respectively materia prima and forma 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 ὕλη or materia prima

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

• → English: hyle

• “hyle”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hyle in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• hyle in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “hyle”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “hyle”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “hyle”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• L&S: Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1969
• See further references under ὕλη (húlē).

From Middle English helden, from Old English hieldan, from Proto-West Germanic *halþijan.

hyle

1. to pour, as liquor or rain.

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 47