OK

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence.

Verb

1. To approve; to accept; to acquiesce to.
2. To confirm by activating a button marked OK.

Adj

1. All right, acceptable, permitted.
2. Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.
3. Satisfied (with); willing to accept a state of affairs.
4. In good health or a good emotional state.

Adv

Satisfactorily, sufficiently well.

Intj

1. Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
2. Used to dismiss a dialog box or confirm a prompt.
3. Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the importance of what is being said.
4. Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter.
5. Used to sarcastically or sardonically indicate agreement with the previous statement.

Name

United States postal abbreviation for Oklahoma, a state of the United States of America.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˌəʊˈkeɪ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Origin disputed. Wikipedia lists many possible etymologies, of which the most widely accepted is that it is an abbreviation of oll/orl korrect, a comical spelling of all correct, which first appeared in print in The Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, as part of a fad for similar fanciful abbreviations in the United States during the late 1830s. The expression became popular through its use in the presidential campaign of Martin Van Buren in 1840, who was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and then slowly acquired other meanings.
The Choctaw word oke, okeh (“it is so”), common in Choctaw translations of the Bible, could also explain OK's variety of affirmative definitions. Additionally, okeh was the most common etymology of okay in dictionaries until the 1960s, and linguistically predates Boston's O.K.. However, this theory suffers from the fact that the Choctaw language was relatively obscure and generally spoken (sometimes in a pidgin form) mainly with African-American slaves.