"hyle" meaning in English

See hyle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: 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”) Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ML.|hyle}} Medieval Latin hyle, {{der|en|grc|ὕλη||wood(s), material(s), matter, subject}} Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood(s), material(s), matter, subject”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} hyle (uncountable)
  1. (obsolete, philosophy) matter Tags: obsolete, uncountable Categories (topical): Philosophy
    Sense id: en-hyle-en-noun-V1I~ZC9j Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
  2. The first matter of the cosmos, from which the four elements arose, according to the doctrines of Empedocles and Aristotle. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-hyle-en-noun-oMnnivo- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: hile, hyla [obsolete], ylem

Alternative forms

Download JSONL data for hyle meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "hyle"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin hyle",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ὕλη",
        "4": "",
        "5": "wood(s), material(s), matter, subject"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood(s), material(s), matter, subject”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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”)",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "hyle (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Philosophy",
          "orig": "en:Philosophy",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "52 48",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "matter"
      ],
      "id": "en-hyle-en-noun-V1I~ZC9j",
      "links": [
        [
          "philosophy",
          "philosophy"
        ],
        [
          "matter",
          "matter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, philosophy) matter"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "52 48",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The first matter of the cosmos, from which the four elements arose, according to the doctrines of Empedocles and Aristotle."
      ],
      "id": "en-hyle-en-noun-oMnnivo-",
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hile"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "hyla"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ylem"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hyle"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Medieval Latin",
    "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
    "English terms derived from Medieval Latin",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "hyle"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin hyle",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ὕλη",
        "4": "",
        "5": "wood(s), material(s), matter, subject"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood(s), material(s), matter, subject”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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”)",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "hyle (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "en:Philosophy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "matter"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "philosophy",
          "philosophy"
        ],
        [
          "matter",
          "matter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, philosophy) matter"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The first matter of the cosmos, from which the four elements arose, according to the doctrines of Empedocles and Aristotle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hile"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "hyla"
    },
    {
      "word": "ylem"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hyle"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-27 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (0f7b3ac and b863ecc). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.