Words With Similar Definitions
Greek	1: hulaios	2: chlêdos	3: axulos	4: idê	5: hulogenês
Latin	1: materiarius	2: materia	3: catarrhus	4: materialis	5: silva
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Words That Regularly Appear With hulê
In Perseus Texts:	eidos	ousia	heis	hulaô	oros
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hulê [u_], hê, forest, woodland, Hom. Il. 11.155, Hom. Od. 17.316, Ep.Jac.3.5, etc.; gên . . dasean hulêi pantoiêi Hdt. 4.21; ap' hulês agriês zôein IDEM=Hdt. 1.203; hula aergos virgin forest, Berl.Sitzb.1927.167 (Cyrene); ta dendra kai hulê fruit-trees and forest-trees, Thuc. 4.69 (cf.dendron) dendron ); not only of forest-trees, but also of copse, brushwood, undergrowth (cf. hulêma ), directly opp. to timber-trees, Xen. Anab. 1.5.1, ti=Xen. Ec. 16.13, au=Xen. Ec. 17.12, PSI6.577.8 (iii B. C.), Sor.1.40: also in pl., HH 2.386, Hecat.291 J., Mosch.3.88, Plb. 5.7.10, D.S.3.48, D.H.Th.6, Str.5.1.12, au=Str. 15.1.60, Plu.Pyrrh.25, Cat. Ma.au=Plu. Pyrrh. 21, ti=Plu. Comp.Cim.Luc.3, Luc.Prom.12, ti=Luc. Sacr.10, ti=Luc. Am.12, Babr.12.2, al., Nonn.D.3.69,au=Nonn. D. 3.252=lr, au=Nonn. D. 16.91, au=Nonn. D. 36.70, etc.

II. wood cut down, Hom. Od. 5.257 (cf. III); firewood, fuel, Hom. Il. 7.418, au=Hom. Il. 23.50,au=Hom. Il. 23.111=lr, al., Hom. Od. 9.234, Hdt. 4.164,au=Hdt. 6.80; brushwood, IDEM=Hdt. 7.36, Thuc. 2.75, etc.; timber, hu. naupêgêsimê Plat. Laws 705c; Waupêgêsimos kai oikodomikê Thphr.HP5.7.1, cf. IG42(1).102.50 (Epid., iv B. C.); also, twigs for birds' nests, Arist.HA559a2.

III. the stuff of which a thing is made, material, (perh. so of wood), Hom. Od. 5.257; rarely of other material, as metal, hoi par' akmoni . . hulên apsuchon dêmiourgountes Plu.2.802b (cf. S.Fr.844, but hulê is Plutarch's word): generally, materials, PMasp.151.91 (vi A. D.).

2. in Philosophy, matter, first in Arist. (Ti.Locr.93b, al. is later); defined as to hupokeimenon geneseôs kai phthoras dektikon, ti=Ti.Locr. GC320a2; as to ez hou gignetai, ti=Ti.Locr. Metaph.1032a17; ousia hê te hu. kai to eidos kai to ek toutôn IBID=au=Ti.Locr. Metaph. 1035a2; opp. as dunamei tode ti to tode ti energeia, IBID=au=Ti.Locr. Metaph. 1042a27; opp. entelecheia, IBID=au=Ti.Locr. Metaph. 1038b6: in later philosoph. writers, mostly opp. to the intelligent and formative principle (nous), Procl. Inst.72, etc.; hu. tôn arithmôn Iamb.Comm.Math.4.

3. matter for a poem or treatise, hu. tragikê, poiêtikai hulai, Plb.2.16.14, Longin. 13.4, cf. au=Longin. 43.1, Vett.Val.172.1, etc.; hê hupokeimenê hu. the subject-matter, Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1094b12, cf. Phld.Rh.2.124 S.

4. hu. iatrikê materia medica, Dsc.tit.; so hulê alone, materia medica, IDEM=S.1 ti=S. Prooem., Gal. 17(2).181; hulai tês technês Ibid=Gal. 1, cf. au=Gal. =lr, Sor.1.83,au=Sor. 1.110=lr, au=Sor. 2.15,au=Sor. 2.28=lr; hê hu. tôn hoplomachikôn energeiôn Gal.6.157.


b. hê mesê hulê the middle range of diet, Sor.1.46, au=Sor. 2.15; trophimôtera hulê IDEM=Sor.1.95, cf. au=Sor. 1.36=lr.


5. pl., material resources, basilikai hulai Ph.1.640.

2. matter excreted from the human body, Sor.1.22,au=Sor. 1.23=lr,au=Sor. 1.25=lr, al.; hê hu. tôn empuêmatôn Gal.18(2).256; phlegm, catarrh, PMed. in Arch.Pap.4.270 (iii A. D.).