opiner

English

Etymology

opine +‎ -er

Noun

opiner (plural opiners)

1. One who opines.
   • 2009 August 9, Virginia Heffernan, “Hashing Things Out”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     That’s what drew me to it: an Internet opiner must be pretty bold so early on to liken Gates, however indirectly, to both a former Black Panther on death row and a Hollywood shoplifter.

Translations

Translations

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: synser m

• Spanish: opinador (es) m
• Swedish: tyckare c

Anagrams

• Perino, Pinero, norepi, orpine, pernio, pioner, porine, pornie, rip one, rope in

French

Etymology

From Latin opīnārī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.pi.ne/

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Verb

opiner

1. to opine

Conjugation

Conjugation of opiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	opiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	opinant /ɔ.pi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		opiné /ɔ.pi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	opine /ɔ.pin/2	opines /ɔ.pin/	opine /ɔ.pin/	opinons /ɔ.pi.nɔ̃/	opinez /ɔ.pi.ne/	opinent /ɔ.pin/
	imperfect	opinais /ɔ.pi.nɛ/	opinais /ɔ.pi.nɛ/	opinait /ɔ.pi.nɛ/	opinions /ɔ.pi.njɔ̃/	opiniez /ɔ.pi.nje/	opinaient /ɔ.pi.nɛ/
	past historic3	opinai /ɔ.pi.ne/	opinas /ɔ.pi.na/	opina /ɔ.pi.na/	opinâmes /ɔ.pi.nam/	opinâtes /ɔ.pi.nat/	opinèrent /ɔ.pi.nɛʁ/
	future	opinerai /ɔ.pin.ʁe/	opineras /ɔ.pin.ʁa/	opinera /ɔ.pin.ʁa/	opinerons /ɔ.pin.ʁɔ̃/	opinerez /ɔ.pin.ʁe/	opineront /ɔ.pin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	opinerais /ɔ.pin.ʁɛ/	opinerais /ɔ.pin.ʁɛ/	opinerait /ɔ.pin.ʁɛ/	opinerions /ɔ.pi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	opineriez /ɔ.pi.nə.ʁje/	opineraient /ɔ.pin.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior3	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	opine /ɔ.pin/2	opines /ɔ.pin/	opine /ɔ.pin/	opinions /ɔ.pi.njɔ̃/	opiniez /ɔ.pi.nje/	opinent /ɔ.pin/
	imperfect3	opinasse /ɔ.pi.nas/	opinasses /ɔ.pi.nas/	opinât /ɔ.pi.na/	opinassions /ɔ.pi.na.sjɔ̃/	opinassiez /ɔ.pi.na.sje/	opinassent /ɔ.pi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect3	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	opine /ɔ.pin/	—	opinons /ɔ.pi.nɔ̃/	opinez /ɔ.pi.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 opiné when inverted.
3 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• opiner du bonnet
• opiner du chef

Further reading

• “opiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

opīner

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of opīnor