Etym

No explanation of the origin of copacetic, including the ones discussed here, has won the approval of scholars, as is clearly shown by the etymology of copacetic in the first volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English, published in 1985: "Etym unknown."

The WELL: West L.A. Fadeaway Robert Hunter 2006

SEIGNEURS, French for Lords. 2, &c. SIZRE, now Cisa; Etym.

La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier L��once [Translator] Rabillon

_I answer that, _ As Isidore says (Etym. x) "a person is said to be pertinacious who holds on impudently, as being utterly tenacious."

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

_On the contrary, _ Isidore says (Etym. vi, 19) that "fasting is frugality of fare and abstinence from food."

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

But as Isidore says (Etym. xviii, 1), "A just war is one that is waged by order of the emperor."

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

_I answer that, _ As Gregory says [* Isidore, Etym. vi, ch. 19], "a sacrament consists in a solemn act, whereby something is so done that we understand it to signify the holiness which it confers."

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

Moreover, if it were to be said that Christ's dead body did continue "totally" the same, it would follow that it was not corrupted -- I mean, by the corruption of death: which is the heresy of the Gaianites, as Isidore says (Etym. viii), and is to be found in the Decretals (xxiv, qu. iii).

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

_I answer that, _ As Isidore says (Etym. x), "the word hypocrite is derived from the appearance of those who come on to the stage with a disguised face, by changing the color of their complexion, so as to imitate the complexion of the person they simulate, at one time under the guise of a man, at another under the guise of a woman, so as to deceive the people in their acting."

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

_On the contrary, _ Augustine (Isidore, Etym. vi) says: "The Divine power in the sacraments works inwardly in producing their salutary effect."

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

_I answer that, _ As Isidore says (Etym. x), "a lustful man is one who is debauched with pleasures."

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas