It's the word of the day for January 22nd.
Today's word is opine, spelled O-P-I-N-E.
Opine is a verb.
To opine is to express an opinion about something.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Variety by Gare Scotton.
Entertainment will always be inherently social.
This latest age has prompted society to take a page out of video game culture,
which has long relied on building a digital community.
We text those we care about after a cliffhanger season finale,
and jump on social media to opine on the latest movie or show,
sharing views on the best scenes,
or even recording oneself watching an intense scene for posting on social media.
We're not opining that is expressing our opinion when we say that the word opine is not a back formation of the word opinion,
though the two words do share a common ancestry.
A back formation is a word formed by the subtraction of part of an existing word.
For instance, the verb bartend is a back formation of the noun bartender.
Opine and opinion, however, both entered English independently,
taking different roots from their mutual roots in the Latin verb opinare,
meaning to have in mind or to think.
Opinion arrived in the 14th century, while opine followed about a century later.