coima

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Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkojma/
  • Rhymes: -ojma
  • Hyphenation: coi‧ma

Noun

coima f (plural coimas)

  1. (law, archaic) fine, reparations

References

Portuguese

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: coi‧ma

Noun

coima f (plural coimas)

  1. fine, reparations
    Synonym: multa
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “coima”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
  2. ^ “coima”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

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/
  • Rhymes: -oima
  • Syllabification: coi‧ma

Noun

coima f (plural coimas)

  1. bribe
    Synonyms: soborno, alfadía (obsolete)

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