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English

Etymology

From Middle English opinion, opinioun, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French opinion, from Latin op?ni?, from op?nor (“to opine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?nj?n/
• Rhymes: -?nj?n
• Hyphenation: opin?ion

Noun

opinion (plural opinions)

1. A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

     Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

2. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
   • 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, I. vii. 32:

     I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

   • Friendship […] gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.

3. (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, V. iv. 47:

     Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion.
4. (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
   • 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, V. i. 5:

     Your reasons at / dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant / without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious / without impudency, learned without opinion, and / strange without heresy.

5. The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
6. (European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible

Derived terms

Related terms

• opination
• opine
• opinionated

Translations

See also

• fact

Verb

opinion (third-person singular simple present opinions, present participle opinioning, simple past and past participle opinioned)

1. (transitive, archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Graden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 166)

     But if (as some opinion) King Ahasuerus were Artaxerxes Mnemon [...], our magnified Cyrus was his second Brother

Translations

References

• opinion at OneLook Dictionary Search
• opinion in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• opinion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Esperanto

Noun

opinion

1. accusative singular of opinio

French

Etymology

From Middle French opinion, from Latin op?ni?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.pi.nj??/

Noun

opinion f (plural opinions)

1. opinion (thought, estimation)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “opinion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin op?ni?.

Noun

opinion f (plural opinions)

1. opinion (thought, estimation)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin op?ni?, via French opinion

Noun

opinion m (definite singular opinionen, indefinite plural opinioner, definite plural opinionene)

1. (public) opinion

Derived terms

• folkeopinion

References

• “opinion” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin op?ni?, via French opinion

Noun

opinion m (definite singular opinionen, indefinite plural opinionar, definite plural opinionane)

1. (public) opinion

Derived terms

• folkeopinion

References

• “opinion” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin op?ni?.

Pronunciation

Noun

opinion f (plural opinions)

1. opinion

   Synonym: vejaire

English

Prepositional phrase

imo

1. Alternative form of IMO.

Anagrams

• IOM, MOI, Mio, mo'i, moi, omi

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• imoha

Pronoun

imo

1. you (2nd person singular preposed ergative form)
2. (in the singular) yours
3. (slang, humorous) one's genitalia

See also

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.mo/
• Rhymes: -imo
• Hyphenation: ì?mo

Etymology 1

From Latin ?mus, superlative form of ?nferus (“low”, “deep”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *n?d?ér.

Adjective

imo (feminine ima, masculine plural imi, feminine plural ime) (obsolete, poetic)

1. (literally) located in the lowest or innermost part
2. (by extension) low, deep

   Synonym: infero

   • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Pommi ove 'l sole occide i fiori et l'erba” (Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini (1858), p.143) :

     Ponm' in cielo od in terra od in abisso, ¶ in alto poggio, in valle ima e palustre, ¶ libero spirto, od a' suoi membri affisso; [...]

     Set me in heaven, on earth, or in the depths, ¶ on a high hill, or in a deep marshy vale, ¶ a spirit freed, or imprisoned in its limbs; [...]

   • 1850, Giosuè Carducci, “La selva primitiva” (Juvenilia, Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli (1906), p. 109, Libro LVII), vv. 43-44:

     [...] un tremor gelido ¶ per l'ossa ime gli corse; e s'atterrava, ¶ e gemea [...]

     [...] a freezing chill ¶ ran through his deep bones; and he dropped ¶ and wailed [...]

3. (figuratively, of people) of a low social status
   • 1581, Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, Erasmo Viotti, p.222, Canto IX:

     Miete i vili, e i potenti: e i più sublimi ¶ e più superbi capi adegua agl’imi.

     It breaks vile and mighty alike: and makes the noblest ¶ and proudest leaders one with the lowest.

4. (rare, figuratively, of things) inappropriate, vulgar, uncouth

Related terms

• inferiore
• infero
• infimo

Etymology 2

From Latin ?mum, substantivization of the neuter form of ?mus (“lowest”, “deepest”).

Noun

imo m (plural imi)

1. (obsolete) bottom; base

   Synonyms: (more common) base, (more common) fondo

   Antonyms: apice, culmine, sommità, vetta

   • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto XXIX, p. 430, vv. 37-39:

Anagrams

• mio

Japanese

Romanization

imo

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Etymology 1

Variant form.

Adverb

im? (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of imm?
   • c. 405, Saint Jerome, Epistola 106:

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

?m?

1. dative masculine singular of ?mus
2. dative neuter singular of ?mus
3. ablative masculine singular of ?mus
4. ablative neuter singular of ?mus

References

• imo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• imo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• imo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Etymology

Regularised form.

Verb

imo

1. (proscribed, Caipira) first-person plural (nós) future indicative of ir

Umbundu

Noun

imo (i-ova class, plural ovamo)

1. belly