I suggested this as a word of the day, but since it's source is a mystery I thought I would ask here what people know about this word. American slang circa 1919.
I use it in the context that everything is running just fine and I have no complaints. I probably picked it up from my father (Chicago born), or from a movie. Anyone remember which movie it is used in?
Variation: "copasetic"
copacetic
Perry: you must be taking your gingko-biloba again...I was quite certain that we had discussed this word at length, but I could not find the thread.
copacetic (c/o Palewriter, Aug 08, 2006)
copacetic (c/o Dr. Goodword, Sep 24, 2006)
copacetic (c/o eberntson, Mar 30, 2007) (different thread than this one)
Ha-HA! The real definition is "the word that will not die".
-gailr
From early Latin capere, late Latin capace, here in Italy we use the word capace meaning able, possible.
Shooting blinded, to my ear the word capacetic would be a likely one in the mouth of an Italian immigrant in his early second stage attempts to spikk inglisc (I am able to do it, I am in a position to do it).
Capacio(u)s would have been his/her first translation mistake, soon corrected.
In your slippers, i would hound around Ellis Island and Broccolyn
Shooting blinded, to my ear the word capacetic would be a likely one in the mouth of an Italian immigrant in his early second stage attempts to spikk inglisc (I am able to do it, I am in a position to do it).
Capacio(u)s would have been his/her first translation mistake, soon corrected.
In your slippers, i would hound around Ellis Island and Broccolyn
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Huh!? That is very interesting, that might explain where my Swedish Grandfather might have picked it up, thus my father. My Grand Father worked for an "Italian" family in Chicago during the depression. The head of the family was eventually put away for tax evasion. <nudge-nudge-wink-wink>
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