Etiquette Definition

ĕtĭ-kĕt, -kĭt
noun
The forms, manners, and ceremonies established by convention as acceptable or required in social relations, in a profession, or in official life.
Webster's New World
The rules for such forms, manners, and ceremonies.
Webster's New World

The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other.

Wiktionary

A label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail.

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Other Word Forms of Etiquette

Noun

Singular:
etiquette
Plural:
etiquettes

Origin of Etiquette

  • 1740, from French étiquette "property, a little piece of paper, or a mark or title, affixed to a bag or bundle, expressing its contents, a label, ticket" from Middle French estiquette (“ticket, memorandum”), from Old French estiquette, from estechier, estichier, estequier "to attach, stick", (compare Picard estiquier "to stick, pierce"), from Frankish *stikkan, stikjan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *st(e)ig-, *(s)teig- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Akin to Old High German stehhan "to stick, attach, nail" (German stechen "to stick"), Old English stician "to pierce, stab, be fastened". The French Court of Louis XIV at Versailles used étiquettes, "little cards", to remind courtiers to keep off of the grass and similar rules. More at stick (verb), stitch.

    From Wiktionary

  • French from Old French estiquet label ticket

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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