cortês
Portuguese, adjective
cortês is spelled C-O-R-T-Ê-S (6 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,755th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cortês is a Portuguese adjective meaning “polite; well-mannered” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, cortes is a different word: “plural of corte (“court”)”. With an accent, côrtes is a different word: “plural of côrte”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que tem cortesia”.
What does cortês mean in English?
adjective
- 1
polite; well-mannered
- 2
courtly (suitable for a royal court)
noun
- 1
masculineplural of corte (“court”)
verb
- 1
second-person singular present subjunctive of cortar
noun
- 1
feminineplural of corte (“cut, act of cutting”)
noun
- 1
plural of côrte
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que tem cortesia 2. delicado 3. amável
noun: 1. assembleia formada por representantes do império português 2. nome que se dá ao parlamento em algumas monarquias
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado de Pernambuco
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cortês
- cortesa feminine
- corteses masculine plural
- cortesas feminine plural
- cortez alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cortês
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cortês in Portuguese?
cortês appears 23 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).