English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Old French curteis (French courtois ), from cort ( “ court ” ) , displaced native Old English hende ( “ courteous, gracious, friendly ” ) .
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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; [...]
Derived terms
Translations
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 ) , 有礼貌 ( jau5 lai5 maau6 ) , 斯文 ( si1 man4 )
Mandarin: 有禮貌 / 有礼貌 (zh) ( yǒulǐmào ) , 有礼貌 (zh) ( yǒulǐmào ) , 客氣 / 客气 (zh) , 客气 (zh) ( kèqi )
Czech: zdvořilý (cs) , slušný (cs)
Dutch: hoffelijk (nl)
Esperanto: ĝentila (eo)
Faroese: ærutur
Finnish: kohtelias (fi)
French: courtois (fr) , poli (fr)
German: höflich (de)
Hebrew: אדיב (he) ( adiv )
Ido: jentila (io)
Irish: lách , sibhialta
Italian: cortese (it)
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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: учтив ( učtiv )
Maori: hūmārika
Norwegian:
Bokmål: høflig
Nynorsk: høfleg
Persian: مؤدب (fa) ( mo'addab )
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)
Ukrainian: вві́чливий (uk) ( vvíčlyvyj )
See also
Anagrams