English → Latin
“courteously” in Latin
comitorto join someone as an attendant; accompany, attend, follow; guard, escort; serve; to attend someone to the grave, attendhūmānushuman (of man, people); humane, kind, philanthropic; cultured, refinedofficiōsusattentive, dutiful, obliging; officiousbenignuskind, good, friendly, pleasant; beneficent, obliging, bounteous; favorable, mildlīberālisfreedom; dignified, honorable, befitting a freedman; generous, liberal, bountiful, ampleblanduspleasant, agreeable; enticing, seductive, alluring; persuasiveperhonōrificusvery honorific (that shows or confers great honour)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
courteously
comiter; humane or humaniter; officiose; benigne; liberaliter; blande [SYN. in COURTEOUS]: perhonorifice. to salute anybody courteously, benigne aliquem salutare: to address anybody courteously, comiter, blande appellare: to answer courteously, alicui respondere liberaliter: to invite courteously, benigne aliquem invitare: to invite anybody courteously to remain (i. e., if he is going to take leave), familiari invitatione aliquem retinere: to receive anybody courteously, aliquem comi hospitio accipere: to behave courteously towards everybody, erga omnes se affabilem praestare: to address everybody courteously, unumquemque comiter appellare. He behaves very courteously to me, perhonorificus in me est.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for courteously?
- The usual Latin words for “courteously” are comitor, hūmānus, officiōsus; also benignus, līberālis, blandus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.