The story
- Italian · derived frompoco“little”
- French · borrowed frompococurante
- English todaypococurante
Borrowed from French pococurante, itself - from Pococurante, a nonchalant Venetian senator in Candide, coined by Voltaire based on Italian poco (“little”) + curante (“caring”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.