zine
See also: Zine and žíně
English
Etymology
Shortened from fanzine, ultimately from magazine; from 1965.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ziːn/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -iːn
Noun
zine (plural zines)
- A low-circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.
- 2005, Kim Cooper, “Mimeos and Cut-Out Bins”, in David Smay, editor, Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Zines contributed to an evolving critical language that would ultimately take two paths: into the gut or to the academy. The most compelling zines fused the two.
- 2008, Samantha Holland, Remote Relationships in a Small World, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 21:
- The feminist zine community is not located in place but it geographically dispersed, constituting a connected flow of communicative practices, spaces, texts, technologies, bodies, and utterances.
- 2013, Barbara J. Guzzetti; Thomas W. Bean, Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self: (Re)Constructing Identities through Multimodal Literacy Practices, Routledge, →ISBN, page 58:
- I conducted a content analysis of the zines I collected by using techniques of thematic analysis (Patton, 1990). I read and reread each of the zines’ contents. I annotated the prose, cartoons, poetry, and narratives in the zines by noting key words that signaled topics and assigning codes and subcodes that were later collapsed to form categories.
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Derived terms
Derived terms
- adzine
- apazine
- blogzine
- clubzine
- crudzine
- cyberzine
- diskzine
- ezine, e-zine
- fanzine
- filmzine
- genzine
- girlzine
- infozine
- letterzine
- litzine
- musiczine
- netzine
- personalzine, perzine
- prozine
- punk zine, punkzine
- slashzine
- stfanzine
- stfzine
- tapezine
- videozine
- webzine
- zinefan
- zinefest
- zinelike
- zinester
Translations
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References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “zine”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
- Inez, nize, zein
Latgalian
Etymology
Related to the verb zynuot; compare Lithuanian žinia, Latvian ziņa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zʲinʲæ/
Noun
zine f
- message, news, information, signal
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English zine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθin/ [ˈθĩn]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsin/ [ˈsĩn]
- Rhymes: -in
Noun
zine m (plural zines)
- zine
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.