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Lemma 34.5.2. Any étale covering is a smooth covering, and a fortiori, any Zariski covering is a smooth covering.

Proof. This is clear from the definitions, the fact that an étale morphism is smooth see Morphisms, Definition 29.36.1 and Lemma 34.4.2. $\square$

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