cortês

See also: cortes, Cortes, cortés, and cortès

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koʁˈte(j)s/ [kohˈte(ɪ̯)s]

• (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]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾˈteʃ/

• Hyphenation: cor‧tês

Adjective

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

1. polite; well-mannered

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cortês

2. courtly (suitable for a royal court)

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “polite”): see Thesaurus:cortês

Derived terms

• cortesmente
• descortês

Related terms

• corte

Further reading

• “cortês”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024