coima

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkojma/ [ˈkoj.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -ojma
• Hyphenation: coi‧ma

Noun

coima f (plural coimas)

1. (law, archaic) fine, reparations

Related terms

• calumnia
• coimar

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 1

From Latin calumnia (“fallacy”). Doublet of calúnia.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkoj.mɐ/ [ˈkoɪ̯.mɐ]

• (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

• coimar, acoimar, escoimar

Etymology 2

Verb

coima

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese coima (“fine”), from Latin calumnia (“false accusation”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

coima f (plural coimas)

1. bribe

Further reading

• “coima”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014