courtois
French
adj
Definitions
- courtly
- courteous polite
Etymology
Inherited from Old French cortois (courteous), cort (court of a monarch).
Origin
Old French
cort
Gloss
court of a monarch
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Curtis English
- Curtisland English
- cortem Latin
- cōrs, cōrtem, cors Latin
- Höflichkeit German
- höflich German
- unhöflich German
- koer Dutch, Flemish
- arrière-cour French
- cour French
- courette French
- discourtois French
- discourtoisement French
- court Middle English
- zdvořilost Czech
- zdvořilý Czech
- cort Old French
- corteier Old French
- corteis Old French
- cortois Old French
- curteis Old French
- cortois Middle Dutch
- cour Norman
- courtouais Norman
- hovelich Middle High German
- hövelich Middle High German
- héiflech Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- court Middle French
- hövelik German Low German