etiquette

n. 礼节，礼仪；规矩

中文词源

etiquette 礼仪

词源同stick, 小木棍，粘，连。原义为粘贴的小卡片，来自法国路易十四时期，给大臣发一张写上注意事项的小卡片，以提醒需要注意的行为和举止。参照同源词ticket.

etiquette: etiquette: [18] Etiquette is, almost literally, ‘just the ticket’. The primary meanings of French étiquette are ‘ticket’ and ‘label’ – and indeed it is the source of English ticket. A particular application of it in former times was to a small card which had written or printed on it directions as to how to behave properly at court – hence it came to mean ‘prescribed code of social behaviour’.
=> ticket
etiquette (n.): 1750, from French étiquette "prescribed behavior," from Old French estiquette "label, ticket" (see ticket (n.)).

The sense development in French perhaps is from small cards written or printed with instructions for how to behave properly at court (compare Italian etichetta, Spanish etiqueta), and/or from behavior instructions written on a soldier's billet for lodgings (the main sense of the Old French word).

1. ticket => etiquette.2. 该词原指“标签”，“签条”。其实英语单词 ticket (票，标签) 亦源于此。因为法国以前在宫廷盛宴时会发给宾客一张称为 etiquette 的纸张或卡片，上面写着应遵循的各种礼节、礼仪，由此后来就转指、引申为：礼节、礼仪。

2. She's a real stickler for etiquette, so you'd better ask her advice.: 她非常讲求礼节, 所以你最好问她的意见.

5. Helen : Today's new word is etiquette – E . T . I. Q . U . E . T . T . E . – etiquette.: Jean:Etiquette. 如今我们很少听说这词语,它非常特别,可以解释一下吗?