opinia

See also: opinią

Polish

Alternative forms

• opinija (Middle Polish)
• opinja (Pre-reform orthography (1936))

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin opīniō. First attested in 1551.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈpiɲ.ja/

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• Rhymes: -iɲja
• Syllabification: o‧pin‧ia

Noun

opinia f

1. (countable) opinion (belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing)

   Synonyms: ocena, pogląd, zdanie

2. (uncountable) opinion (manner in which someone or something is perceived)

   Synonyms: imię, marka, reputacja

3. (countable) opinion (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)
4. (uncountable) opinion (specific community expressing an evaluation of something)

Declension

Declension of opinia

	singular	plural
nominative	opinia	opinie
genitive	opinii	opinii/opinij (archaic)
dative	opinii	opiniom
accusative	opinię	opinie
instrumental	opinią	opiniami
locative	opinii	opiniach
vocative	opinio	opinie

Derived terms

adjectives

• opiniotwórczy

 

nouns

• opinia doradcza
• opinia publiczna

 

Descendants

• → Kashubian: òpiniô
• → Silesian: ôpinijŏ

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), opinia is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 10 times in scientific texts, 23 times in news, 36 times in essays, 16 times in fiction, and 7 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 92 times, making it the 686th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• opinia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• opinia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “OPINIA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 03.03.2020
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “opinja”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎^[2]
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “opinja”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 800
• opinia in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Portuguese

Verb

opinia

1. inflection of opiniar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative