coima

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

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

coima f (plural coimas)

1. (law, archaic) fine, reparations

• calumnia
• coimar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cooyma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coom”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coima”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “coima”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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

• Hyphenation: coi‧ma

coima f (plural coimas)

1. fine, reparations

   Synonym: multa

• coimar, acoimar, escoimar

coima

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

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

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

coima f (plural coimas)

1. bribe

   Synonyms: soborno, alfadía (obsolete)

• “coima”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16