coima

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cooyma (“reparations”), from Latin calumnia (“fallacy”). Doublet of calumnia.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkojma/

Noun

coima f (plural coimas)

  1. (law, archaic) fine, reparations

References
  • “cooyma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “coom” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “coima” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “coima” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin calumnia (“fallacy”).[1][2] Doublet of calúnia.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkoj.mɐ/ [ˈkoɪ̯.mɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkoj.ma/ [ˈkoɪ̯.ma]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkoj.mɐ/, /ˈkɔj.mɐ/

  • Hyphenation: coi‧ma

Noun

coima f (plural coimas)

  1. fine, reparations
    Synonym: multa

Derived terms

References
  1. “coima” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
  2. “coima” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkoima/ [ˈkoi̯.ma]
  • Rhymes: -oima
  • Syllabification: coi‧ma

Noun

coima f (plural coimas)

  1. bribe

Further reading
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