Opining

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To state a personal belief or conclusion about a matter
2. To share or declare a personal viewpoint or judgment about a subject
3. To communicate one's thoughts or beliefs on a particular topic

Etymology: "Opining" is the present participle of "opine," and the verb's story is a chain of borrowings that began with a Latin word about expecting something. Latin "opīnor" meant "to hold as an opinion," and it grew from an older adjective, "opīnus," which survives only in compounds such as "nec-opīnus," meaning "not expecting," and "in-opīnus," meaning "not expected." Those compounds are the clearest clue to the root's sense: an opinion was originally a matter of anticipating or supposing something, not of firmly believing it. The Latin root is related to "optō," "to choose or desire," which is also the ancestor of "opt" and "optate." English took the verb from Middle French "opiner," which carried the Latin sense of forming a view into the language. Over time, "opine" settled into the sense of stating a judgment on a subject, and the participle "opining" follows that meaning.

Synonyms: expressing, stating, asserting, declaring, proclaiming