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語源 1

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.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ə(ʊ)ˈpaɪn/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /oʊˈpaɪn/
• (General Australian) IPA: /əʉˈpɑen/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ɐʉˈpaɪn/, [ɐʉˈpɑe̯n]
• 韻: -aɪn

動詞

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."

   • 2004, David Mitchell, “Letters From Zedelghem”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 75:

     Requested “Bonsoir, Paris!” and he performed with such élan I pressed a crisp five-franc note into his hand. He removed his dark glasses, checked the watermark, invoked his pet saint’s name, gathered his coppers, and scarpered through the flower beds, laughing like a madcap. Whoever opined “Money can’t buy you happiness” obviously had far too much of the stuff.

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.
   • 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], Rob Roy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

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

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

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語源 2

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

名詞

opine (plural opines)

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

Further reading

• “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.