different between courter vs courtier

English

Etymology

court +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)

Noun

courter (plural courters)

1. One who courts; one who plays the lover, or solicits in marriage.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sherwood to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Récourt, rectour

English

Etymology

From Middle English courteour, from Anglo-Norman corteour, Old French cortoiier, from cort (“court”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??ti?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??t??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?ko(?)?ti?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?ko?t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)ti?(?)

Noun

courtier (plural courtiers)

1. A person in attendance at a royal court.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1,^[1]

     By the Lord, Horatio, this three years I have taken note of it, the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe.

2. A person who flatters in order to seek favour.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 12,

     People shouted cheerfully and flinched, but the Prime Minister didn't flinch, she fortified her voice with a firm diapason as if rising to the challenge of a rowdy Chamber. Around her her courtiers started like pheasants.

3. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Sephisa.

Related terms

• court
• courtesan

Translations

Anagrams

• outcrier

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?.tje/

Noun

courtier m (plural courtiers, feminine courtière)

1. broker; stockbroker

Further reading

• “courtier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).