cortesía
/koɾteˈsia/ · B1 · noun · f
politeness
🤝 cortesía = cortés (courteous) + -ía; English courtesy, from court manners
Both words come from corte, the royal court: being cortés meant behaving the way people were expected to at court. Swap the English -y ending for -ía, stress the í, and courtesy becomes cortesía.