cortês

See also: cortes, Cortes, cortés, and cortès

Portuguese

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cortes (“courtly”), from corte (“court”) + -es.

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁˈte(j)s/ [kohˈte(ɪ̯)s]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /koɾˈte(j)s/ [koɾˈte(ɪ̯)s]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koʁˈte(j)ʃ/ [koχˈte(ɪ̯)ʃ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koɻˈte(j)s/ [koɻˈte(ɪ̯)s]

cortês (feminine cortesa, masculine plural corteses, feminine plural cortesas)

polite; well-mannered
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cortês
- 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Fabiano”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 29:
  Exquisitice um homem remediado ser cortez.
  What a weird thing, for a learned man to be humble.
courtly (suitable for a royal court)