opine

Borrowed from Middle French opiner, from Latin opīnor (“to hold as an opinion”), from *opīnus (“thinking, expecting”), only in negative nec-opīnus (“not expecting”) and in-opīnus (“not expected”); akin to optō (“to choose, desire”), and to apīscor (“to obtain”); see optate and opt.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ə(ʊ)ˈpaɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /oʊˈpaɪn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

opine (third-person singular simple present opines, present participle opining, simple past and past participle opined)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that).

   I opined that matters would soon become considerably worse.

   "Your decisions," she opined, "have been unfailingly disastrous for this company."

2. (intransitive) To give one's formal opinion (on or upon something).

   I had to opine on the situation because I thought a different perspective was in order.

3. (intransitive, transitive) to suppose, consider as correct, or entertain, an opinion.
   • 1859 Walter Scott: The Waverley Novels

     Do you, Maister Francis, opine that ye will re-establish your father's credit by cutting your kinsman's thrapple, or getting your ain sneckit instead thereof in the College-yards of Glasgow?

   • 1870 The Dental Times, Pennsylvanian College of Dental Surgery, Vol VII p 130

     This, I opine, is a correct and fair statement of the case.

Derived from Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós, “juice of a plant”) +‎ -ine.

opine (plural opines)

1. (biochemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds, derived from amino acids, found in some plant tumours

• “opine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “opine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Homophones: opinent, opines

opine

1. inflection of opiner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

opine

1. plural of opina

• peoni, pieno, pione

opine

1. inflection of opinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /oˈpine/ [oˈpi.ne]
• Rhymes: -ine
• Syllabification: o‧pi‧ne

opine

1. inflection of opinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative