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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-147/
- Published: 2020-06-21T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-06-14T04:00:56.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

The word for today is…

politesse (noun) – Courteous formality; politeness.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/politesse?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Nowadays, no one refers to a “polite” looking glass or houses “polite” and in good repair, but polite (or polit or polyt, as it was spelled in Middle English) originally meant simply “polished” or “clean.” By the early 1600s, polite was being used of polished and refined people, and politeness had been penned to name the shining quality of such people. Politesse (a French borrowing) debuted in the late 17th century. All three words stem from Latin polire, which means “to polish” (and which is, by way of the Anglo-French stem poliss-, an ancestor of the English polish). Today we tend to use politeness for everyday good manners and reserve politesse for more formal courtesies.

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