The story
- Late Latin · borrowed fromindolēns
- French · borrowed fromindolent
- English todayindolent
From French indolent or directly from Late Latin indolēns, from in- (“not”) + dolēns (“hurting”), from doleo (“to hurt”). The later sense of “living easily, slothful” perhaps developed in French.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.