curteis

• courteis, courteys, curtes, curteise, curteys, curtois
• cortays, cortayse, corteis, corteys (especially Kent, Southern, West Midland)
• courtays, curtais, curtayse (chiefly Northern); courtas, curtas (Early Scots)

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman curteis and continental Old French corteis, cortois; compare court.

• IPA^(key): /kurˈtæi̯s/, /ˈkurtis/

curteis

1. Appropriate for a court; cultured, elegant, refined.
2. Courteous, charitable, kind.
3. Showing due deference; respectful, humble.

• curteisie
• curteisly

• English: courteous (remodelled after -ous)
  • → Scots: courteous
• Middle Scots: courtas, courtes, curtas

• “cǒurteis, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

curteis m (oblique and nominative feminine singular curteise)

1. (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of corteis