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polite

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See also:Polite,polité,andpolitè

English

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Etymology

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FromLatinpolītus(“polished”), past participle ofpoliō(“I polish, smooth”); seepolish.

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /pəˈlaɪt/
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Rhymes:-aɪt

Adjective

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polite (comparativepoliterormorepolite,superlativepolitestormostpolite)

Well-mannered,civilized.
It's notpolite to use a mobile phone in a restaurant.
Try and bepolite to Auntie Mariafor once.
- 1733,Alexander Pope,Epistle to Bathurst:
  He marries, bows at court, and growspolite.
- 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
  I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody sopolite.
(obsolete)Smooth,polished,burnished.
- 1704,I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, inOpticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to theRoyal Society, […],→OCLC:
  rays of light[…]falling on[…]apolite surface

well-mannered

Afrikaans:beleefd
Albanian:i sjellshëm (sq)
Arabic:أَدِيب(ʔadīb),مُؤَدَّب(muʔaddab)
Armenian:քաղաքավարի (hy)(kʻaġakʻavari)
Azerbaijani:nəzakətli
Bashkir:әҙәпле(əźəple),ихтирамлы(ixtiramlı)
Belarusian:ве́тлівы(vjétlivy)
Breton:seven (br)
Bulgarian:учти́в (bg)(učtív),ве́жлив (bg)(véžliv)
Burmese:မွန်ရည် (my)(mwanrany),ယဉ်ကျေ(yanykye),ညင်သာ (my)(nyangsa)
Catalan:cortès (ca),educat (ca),polit (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese:有禮貌 /有礼貌(jau⁵ lai⁵ maau⁶),斯文(si¹ man⁴)
Mandarin:有禮貌 /有礼貌 (zh)(yǒulǐmào),客氣 /客气 (zh)(kèqi),斯文 (zh)(sīwén)
Czech:zdvořilý (cs),slušný (cs)
Danish:høflig (da)
Dutch:beleefd (nl)
Esperanto:ĝentila (eo)
Estonian:viisakas
Finnish:kohtelias (fi)
French:poli (fr)
Georgian:თავაზიანი(tavaziani)
German:höflich (de)
Greek:ευγενικός (el)(evgenikós)
Hebrew:מְנוּמָס(m'numás)
Hindi:सभ्य (hi)(sabhya),विनम्र (hi) m(vinamra)
Hungarian:udvarias (hu)
Icelandic:kurteis (is)
Indonesian:sopan (id)
Irish:sibhialta,béasach
Italian:cortese (it),educato (it)
Japanese:丁寧 (ja)(ていねい, teinei),礼儀正しい (ja)(れいぎただしい, reigitadashii)
Kazakh:әдепті(ädeptı),биязы(biäzy)
Khmer:ចេះគួរសម(cheh kuə sɑɑ mɔɔ),គួរសម(kuə sɑɑ mɔɔ)
Korean:공손하다 (ko)(gongsonhada)
Kyrgyz:адептүү (ky)(adeptüü),сылык (ky)(sılık)
Lao:ສຸພາບ(su phāp)
Latin:cōmis (la)
Latvian:pieklājīgs
Lithuanian:mandagus (lt)
Macedonian:учтив(učtiv)
Malay:sopan
Malayalam:മര്യാദയുള്ള (ml)(maryādayuḷḷa)
Mongolian:эелдэг (mn)(ejeldeg)
Norman:poli(Jersey)
Norwegian:høflig
Ottoman Turkish:نازك(nâzik),كبار(kibar),تربیه‌لو(terbiyeli)
Persian:مؤدب (fa)(mo'addab)
Plautdietsch:heeflich
Polish:uprzejmy (pl),grzeczny (pl)
Portuguese:educado (pt),polido (pt),cortês (pt)
Romanian:politicos (ro)
Russian:ве́жливый (ru)(véžlivyj),учти́вый (ru)(učtívyj)
Scottish Gaelic:modhail,suairc,cùirteil
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic:у̀чтив,уљудан,одгојен
Roman:ùčtiv (sh),uljudan (sh),odgojen (sh)
Slovak:zdvorilý,slušný
Slovene:vljuden (sl)
Spanish:cortés (es),educado (es),de buena educación
Swedish:hövlig (sv),artig (sv)
Tajik:боадаб(boadab),боназокат(bonazokat),мулоим (tg)(muloyim),хушмуомила(xušmuomila),муаддаб(muaddab)
Thai:สุภาพ (th)(sù-pâap)
Turkish:kibar (tr),nazik (tr)
Turkmen:näzik,hoşamaý,edepli
Ukrainian:вві́чливий (uk)(vvíčlyvyj),че́мний(čémnyj),ґре́чний (uk)(gréčnyj)
Uzbek:odobli (uz),muyolim,xushmuomala (uz),silliq (uz),boadab (uz),adabli (uz),nazokatli (uz)
Vietnamese:lịch sự (vi),lễ phép (vi)
Walloon:poli (wa) m,oniesse (wa) c

Verb

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polite (third-person singular simple presentpolites,present participlepoliting,simple past and past participlepolited)

(obsolete, transitive) Topolish; torefine; to render polite.
- 1691,John Ray,The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […],→OCLC:
  those exercises plied, whichpolite men's spirits

References

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John A. Simpson andEdmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “polite”, inThe Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford:Clarendon Press,→ISBN.

Anagrams

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piolet,topile

Italian

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Adjective

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polite f pl

feminine plural ofpolito

Anagrams

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oplite,pilote

Latin

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Verb

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polīte

second-person plural present active imperative ofpoliō

References

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“polite”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“polite”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers