For example, when we say someone has good courtesy, we can say they are courteous.
Is there an analogous word for having good etiquette?
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For example, when we say someone has good courtesy, we can say they are courteous.
Is there an analogous word for having good etiquette?
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According to OED, the only "valid" adjectival derivative of etiquette is...
...for which the most recent of their six citations is...
There are several hundred instances of "etiquettical" in Google Books. Leafing through them I can't see any where the term is directly applied to a person, but the observing ... etiquette definition above certainly implies that in principle it could be thus used.
As to the alternative derivation etiquettal (which doesn't seem to feature in any authoritative dictionaries), I would simply note that there are only 15 legible instances in Google Books, all from the past few decades. In light of that I'd say it's just an erroneous form.
In practice it seems people don't actually apply etiquettical (or its bastard offspring etiquettal) to people, even if in principle they could). Probably the most common adjective (putting aside nitpicking over fine semantic distinctions) is OP's own courteous, but I think it's worth noting that manners shares with etiquette the fact that although it can be qualified both positively and negatively (good manners, bad manners), the default interpretation of the word is positive.
So although there are adjectival forms such as ill-mannered and well-mannered, we don't actually need to qualify the term to force the positive interpretation. Here's an instance in a letter from Byron (pub. 1844)...