Reverenz

Machine-translated from the German article

The term Reverenz (from Latin vereri "to fear, to shrink from, to revere") is a Latinism and means deference, homage, or a (greeting) gesture of reverence toward a socially and culturally highly esteemed person, such as a bow, a genuflection, a curtsy, or a diplomatic hand kiss. As a ritual or as an ironically broken phrase, the term is sometimes used in the idiom jemandem seine Reverenz erweisen ("to pay one's respects to someone").