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ὕλης (hyles)

ὕλης is an Ancient Greek form of ὕλη, meaning “forest, wood”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 370 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.139: ὡς δʼ ὅτε τυφομένης ὕλης ὕπερ αἰθαλόεσσαι

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 2.3·3: … έχνης καὶ πρὶν ψαύειν τῆς ὕλης, ἐνήργει δʼ αὐταῖς περὶ τὴν ὕλην--ἅπασα γὰρ δύναμις ἀργεῖ ἀποροῦσα τῆς οἰκείας ὕλησ--, οὕτω καὶ τὸ σπέρμα τὰς μὲν δυνάμεις οἴκοθεν ἐκέκτητο, τὰς δʼ ἐνεργείας οὐκ ἐκ τῆς ὕλης ἔλαβεν, ἀλλὰ περὶ τ …

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.