indoles

Plural of indole.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɪndəʊlz/

indoles

1. plural of indole

From Latin indolēs (“inborn quality, nature”), from indu- (“within, in”) + -olēs (“growing”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɪndəʊ̆liːz/

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’.

• dienols, olenids, Leonids, solenid, lensoid, Liendos, dolines, sondeli, insoled, elonids

From indu- (“in”) + -olēs (“growing”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪn.dɔ.ɫeːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈin̪.d̪o.les]

indolēs f (genitive indolis); third declension

1. innate or inborn quality; nature

   Synonyms: ingenium, mēns, natura, habitus, character

2. natural ability; talent

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

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

• “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^[1], 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
    

indoles m pl

1. plural of indol