Etymology
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From Middle English curteis, from Old French curteis (French courtois), from cort (“court”).
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courteous (comparative more courteous, superlative most courteous)
- Showing regard or thought for others; especially, displaying good manners or etiquette.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:polite
- Antonyms: discourteous, uncourteous; see also Thesaurus:impolite
a courteous gentleman a courteous gesture
1818, John Keats, “Book III”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 149, lines 932–935:Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; [...]
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showing regard for others
- Arabic: مُهَذَّب (muhaḏḏab), مُؤَدَّب (muʔaddab)
- Belarusian: ве́тлівы (vjétlivy)
- Bulgarian: учти́в (bg) (učtív), внима́телен (bg) (vnimátelen), ве́жлив (bg) (véžliv)
- Catalan: cortès (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 有禮貌/有礼貌 (jau5 lai5 maau6), 斯文 (si1 man4)
- Mandarin: 有禮貌/有礼貌 (zh) (yǒulǐmào), 客氣/客气 (zh) (kèqi)
- Czech: zdvořilý (cs), slušný (cs)
- Danish: høflig (da), beleven (da)
- Dutch: hoffelijk (nl)
- Esperanto: ĝentila (eo)
- Faroese: ærutur
- Finnish: kohtelias (fi)
- French: courtois (fr), poli (fr)
- German: höflich (de), zuvorkommend (de), aufmerksam (de)
- Hebrew: אדיב (he) (adiv)
- Ido: jentila (io)
- Irish: lách, sibhialta
- Italian: cortese (it)
- Japanese: 丁寧 (ja) (ていねい, teinei), 礼儀正しい (ja) (reigitadashii), 思いやりのある (omoiyarinoaru)
- Latin: cōmis (la)
- Macedonian: у́чтив (účtiv), љу́безен (ljúbezen), внима́телен (vnimátelen), куртоа́зен (kurtoázen)
- Maori: hūmārika
- Middle English: curteis, semly
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: høflig
- Nynorsk: høfleg
- Persian: مؤدب (fa) (mo'addab)
- Plautdietsch: heeflich
- Polish: uprzejmy (pl), grzeczny (pl)
- Portuguese: cortês (pt)
- Russian: любе́зный (ru) (ljubéznyj), ве́жливый (ru) (véžlivyj), обходи́тельный (ru) (obxodítelʹnyj), учти́вый (ru) (učtívyj), внима́тельный (ru) (vnimátelʹnyj), куртуа́зный (ru) (kurtuáznyj) (archaic)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: учтив
- Roman: učtiv (sh)
- Slovak: zdvorilý, slušný
- Slovene: vljuden (sl)
- Spanish: cordial (es), cortés (es)
- Swedish: artig (sv), hövlig (sv)
- Turkish: kibar (tr), nazik (tr), efendi (tr)
- Ukrainian: вві́чливий (uk) (vvíčlyvyj)
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