opter

English

Etymology

From opt +‎ -er.

Noun

opter (plural opters)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• -trope, ptero-, Porte, Perot, trope, Petro, retop, petro-, repot, petro, tepor, toper

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin optāre (“to choose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔp.te/

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Verb

opter

1. 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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• optatif
• option

Descendants

• → Dutch: opteren

Further reading

• “opter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• porte, porté

Latin

Verb

opter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of optō