ὕλας (hylas)

ὕλας is an Ancient Greek form of ὕλη, meaning “forest, wood”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

It can also be a form of ὑλάω, “bark, bay; howl”.

It can also be a form of Ὕλη, “Hyle — a daughter of Thespieus, from whom the town of Hyle in Boeotia was believed to have derived its…”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 69 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.131: ὡρμήθη· σὺν καί οἱ Ὕλας κίεν, ἐσθλὸς ὀπάων,

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 8.49: ὦ τράγε, τᾶν λευκᾶν αἰγῶν ἄνερ, ὧ βάθος ὕλας

All forms of ὕλη (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.