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) (law, archaic) fine, reparations ==== Related terms ==== calumnia coimar === References === Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cooyma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “coima”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega 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 == Portuguese == === Etymology 1 === From Latin calumnia (“fallacy”). Doublet of calúnia. ==== Pronunciation ==== Hyphenation: coi‧ma ==== Noun ==== coima f (plural coimas) fine, reparations Synonym: multa ===== Derived terms ===== coimar, acoimar, escoimar ==== References ==== === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== coima inflection of coimar: third-person singular present indicative second-person singular imperative === Further reading === “coima”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 == 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) bribe Synonyms: soborno, alfadía (obsolete) === Further reading === “coima”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025