Translation
opinion, belief; reputation, expectation
Examples
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The opinion of people varies.
dicam.
I shall state my opinion.
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He won against everyone's expectation.
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His reputation among the citizens is great.
ducti .
They were led by a false belief.
Opinio, opinionis is third declension feminine, from opinor, "suppose". Note the single p: the English opinion doubles nothing, but plenty of learners write oppinio by analogy with oppono.
Three senses, and the second and third catch people out. Straightforwardly it is a belief or judgement, close to sententia. But opinio also means the belief other people hold about you, so magna opinio is a good reputation, and opinione celerius means "faster than expected", an ablative of comparison against what was believed. Latin does not share the English snobbery about the word: for Cicero opinio is what you hold short of certain knowledge, which is a real epistemological claim rather than a put-down.
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