indoles

Plural of indole.

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

indoles

1. plural of indole

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

• (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, in The Quarterly Review, page 214:

     Every language has its own ‘indoles’.

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

From indu- (“in”) + *olēs (“growth”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.do.leːs/, [ˈɪn.dɔ.ɫeːs]

indolēs f (genitive indolis); third declension

1. innate or inborn quality; nature
2. natural ability; talent

Third declension i-stem.

• Italian: indole
• Portuguese: índole
• 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, 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