indoles

See also: índoles

English

Etymology 1

Plural of indole.

Pronunciation

Noun

indoles

  1. plural of indole

Etymology 2

From Latin indolēs (inborn quality, nature), from indu- (within, in) + ol- (to grow) (an affix also found in abolish and adolescent).

Pronunciation

Noun

indoles (uncountable)

  1. Natural disposition; innate character; unalterable intrinsic traits and qualities (collectively).[1]
    • 1673, Obadiah Walker, Of education, especially of young gentlemen, page 93:
      He must be treated as the Brachmans did their children, whose indoles they disliked.
    • 1677, Sir Matthew Hale, The primitive origination of mankind, page 160:
      Such is the indoles of the Humane Nature, where it is not strangely over-grown with Barbarousness.
    • 1882 July, The Quarterly Review, page 214:
      Every language has its own ‘indoles’.

References

  1. The Oxford English Dictionary (2007)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From indu- (in) + *olēs (growth).

Pronunciation

Noun

indolēs f (genitive indolis); third declension

  1. innate or inborn quality; nature
    Synonyms: ingenium, mēns, natura, habitus, character
  2. natural ability; talent

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative indolēs indolēs
Genitive indolis indolium
Dative indolī indolibus
Accusative indolem indolēs
indolīs
Ablative indole indolibus
Vocative indolēs indolēs

Descendants

  • Catalan: índole
  • English: indoles
  • Italian: indole
  • Portuguese: índole
  • Sicilian: ìnnuli
  • Spanish: índole

References

  • indoles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • indoles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • indoles in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • indoles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be gifted, talented (not praeditum esse by itself): bona indole (always in sing.) praeditum esse
    • character: natura et mores; vita moresque; indoles animi ingeniique; or simply ingenium, indoles, natura, mores

Spanish

Noun

indoles m pl

  1. plural of indol
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