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‖ protyle|ˈprəʊtaɪl|
Also prothyle, -yl.
[irreg. f. Gr. πρωτ(ο- proto- first, primary, primitive + ὕλη ‘timber, material’, in philosophical lang. ‘matter’; see hyle, and cf. πρώτη ὕλη first matter or substance (Aristotle Metaph.).
If a combination of the two words had been made in Greek, it would have been *πρωθύλη, in Latin form prōthylē. Moreover, in Eng., ὕλη as second element usually becomes -yl, as in methyl, ethyl, carbonyl, etc.; thus the regular form would be prothyl.]
A name proposed for the hypothetical original undifferentiated matter, of which the chemical substances provisionally regarded as elements may be composed.
1886W. Crookes Address in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 568 Let us picture the very beginnings of time... Before even the sun himself had consolidated from the original protyle. [Note] We require a word analogous to protoplasm to express the idea of the original primal matter existing before the evolution of the chemical elements. The word I have ventured to use for the purpose is compounded of πρό (earlier than) and ὕλη (the stuff of which things are made). 1891[F. C. S. Schiller] Riddles of Sphinx 189 Prothyle, the undifferentiated basis of chemical evolution. 1903Daily Chron. 24 Apr. 5/1 That hypothetical substance—the ‘prothyl’—of which the entire material universe, suns, planets, comets, and nebulæ, is made. 1905Academy 4 Feb. 108/1 At present theory seems to suggest that this ether, originally ‘invented’ to account for the phenomena of light, and called the ‘luminiferous ether’, is really the prima materia of the ancients, the Urstoff of the Germans, the protyle of Sir William Crookes. |