English

Pronunciation

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

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

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

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, in The Quarterly Review, page 214:

     Every language has its own ‘indoles’.

References

1. ↑ The Oxford English Dictionary (2007)

Anagrams

• Leonids

Latin

Etymology

From indu- +‎ *olēs.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

indolēs f ‎(genitive indolis); third declension

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

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “indoles”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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