opter
English
Etymology
opt + -er
Noun
opter (plural opters)
- One who opts, or makes a choice.
- 2012, Jeff Sellars, Light Shining in a Dark Place (page 50)
- Hannibal Lecter is one of many in the gallery of cinema villains and unrepentant opters for evil who remind us that the only place where they will be at home is Hell or the void.
- 2012, Jeff Sellars, Light Shining in a Dark Place (page 50)
Anagrams
- -trope, Perot, Petro, Porte, petro, petro-, ptero-, repot, tepor, toper, trope
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin optāre, present active infinitive of optō (“I choose”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔp.te/
Audio (file)
Verb
opter
- to opt
Conjugation
Conjugation of opter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | opter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | optant /ɔp.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | opté /ɔp.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | opte /ɔpt/ | optes /ɔpt/ | opte /ɔpt/ | optons /ɔp.tɔ̃/ | optez /ɔp.te/ | optent /ɔpt/ |
| imperfect | optais /ɔp.tɛ/ | optais /ɔp.tɛ/ | optait /ɔp.tɛ/ | options /ɔp.tjɔ̃/ | optiez /ɔp.tje/ | optaient /ɔp.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | optai /ɔp.te/ | optas /ɔp.ta/ | opta /ɔp.ta/ | optâmes /ɔp.tam/ | optâtes /ɔp.tat/ | optèrent /ɔp.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | opterai /ɔp.tə.ʁe/ | opteras /ɔp.tə.ʁa/ | optera /ɔp.tə.ʁa/ | opterons /ɔp.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | opterez /ɔp.tə.ʁe/ | opteront /ɔp.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | opterais /ɔp.tə.ʁɛ/ | opterais /ɔp.tə.ʁɛ/ | opterait /ɔp.tə.ʁɛ/ | opterions /ɔp.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | opteriez /ɔp.tə.ʁje/ | opteraient /ɔp.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | opte /ɔpt/ | optes /ɔpt/ | opte /ɔpt/ | options /ɔp.tjɔ̃/ | optiez /ɔp.tje/ | optent /ɔpt/ |
| imperfect2 | optasse /ɔp.tas/ | optasses /ɔp.tas/ | optât /ɔp.ta/ | optassions /ɔp.ta.sjɔ̃/ | optassiez /ɔp.ta.sje/ | optassent /ɔp.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | opte /ɔpt/ | — | optons /ɔp.tɔ̃/ | optez /ɔp.te/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
- optatif
- option
Further reading
- “opter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- porte, porté
Latin
Verb
opter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of optō