"Polite,Courteous,Well-Bred" . "Curtis"@en . . "Curtis or Curtiss is a common English given name and surname of Anglo-Norman origin derived from the Old French curteis (Modern French courtois, surname Courtois) which means \"polite, courteous, or well-bred\". It is a compound of curt- \u2033court\u2033 and -eis \u2033-ish\u2033. The spelling u to render [u] in Old French was mainly Anglo-Norman and Norman, when the spelling o [u] was the usual Parisian French one, Modern French ou [u]."@en .