英语词汇polite的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	polite
词源	polite [LME] Latin politus ‘polished, made smooth’ is the source of polite, with polish [LME] coming from the same root via French. Polite was originally used to mean ‘polished’, with the sense of something that is carefully finished and maintained being transferred to language and behaviour around 1500.
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