hyle

Meaning

Noun

• matter
• The first matter of the cosmos, from which the four elements arose, according to the doctrines of Empedocles and Aristotle.

Origin

• 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 or πρώτη ὕλη