different between qualities vs indoles

English

Noun

qualities

1. plural of quality

English

Etymology 1

Plural of indole.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??nd??lz/

Noun

indoles

1. plural of indole

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??nd???li?z/

Noun

indoles (uncountable)

1. 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, in The Quarterly Review, page 214:

     Every language has its own ‘indoles’.

References

Anagrams

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

Latin

Etymology

From indu- (“in”) + *ol?s (“growth”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?in.do.le?s/, [??n?d????e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?in.do.les/, [?in?d??l?s]

Noun

indol?s f (genitive indolis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Descendants

• Italian: indole
• Portuguese: índole
• 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, 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.