# The Stacks Project

## Tag 04RH

Definition 55.38.1. Let $S$ be a scheme. Let $f : X \to Y$ be a morphism of algebraic spaces over $S$. Let $x \in |X|$. We say $f$ is étale at $x$ if there exists an open neighbourhood $X' \subset X$ of $x$ such that $f|_{X'} : X' \to Y$ is étale

The code snippet corresponding to this tag is a part of the file spaces-morphisms.tex and is located in lines 7547–7554 (see updates for more information).

\begin{definition}
\label{definition-etale}
Let $S$ be a scheme.
Let $f : X \to Y$ be a morphism of algebraic spaces over $S$.
Let $x \in |X|$. We say $f$ is {\it \'etale at $x$} if there
exists an open neighbourhood $X' \subset X$ of $x$ such that
$f|_{X'} : X' \to Y$ is \'etale
\end{definition}

## Comments (1)

Comment #2456 by Matthieu Romagny on March 15, 2017 a 12:56 pm UTC

Final point missing.

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