# zine
## English
### Alternative forms

* 'zine

### Etymology

Shortened from fanzine, ultimately from magazine; from 1965.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ziːn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (General American):(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.
** 2024 November 25, Max Brockman, “P.I. Undercover: New York” (5:35 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎, season 6, episode 8, spoken by Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillén):“Do you think Cal Bodian's over there? Do you think he'll sign my zine?” “♪♪ Bum, bada-dum. ♪♪ My P.I. Undercover fanzine. I've done everything myself. I just took a guess about the chest hair.”

#### 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
### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “zine”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Inez, nize, zein

## Latgalian
### Etymology

Related to the verb zynuot; compare Lithuanian žinia, Latvian ziņa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zʲinʲæ/

### Noun

zine f
* message, news, information, signal

## Serbo-Croatian
### Verb

zine (Cyrillic spelling зине)
* third-person singular present of zinuti

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English zine.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /ˈθin/ [ˈθĩn]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /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.