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English
Etymology 1
Plural of indole.
Pronunciation
Noun
indoles
- 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)
- Natural disposition; innate character; unalterable intrinsic traits and qualities (collectively).
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
- ^ The Oxford English Dictionary (2007)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From indu- (“in”) + *olēs (“growth”).
Pronunciation
Noun
indolēs f (genitive indolis); third declension
- innate or inborn quality; nature
- Synonyms: ingenium, mēns, natura, habitus, character
- natural ability; talent
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Descendants
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
- plural of indol