Etymograph

English

hylomorphism

From hylo- (“wood, matter”) + -morphism.

A compound of hylo- ‘wood, matter’ + -morphism

Ancient Greek ὕλη ‘wood’

English hylo-

Today it means

noun The doctrine that every physical substance is the sum of its component matter and the form taken by that matter.

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