alimonia

Latin

Etymology

From alō (“I nourish”, or a related adjectival root) +‎ -mōnia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.liˈmoː.ni.a/, [älʲɪˈmoːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.liˈmo.ni.a/, [äliˈmɔːniä]

Noun

alimōnia f (genitive alimōniae); first declension

1. food, nourishment
2. feeding, nurture

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	alimōnia	alimōniae
Genitive	alimōniae	alimōniārum
Dative	alimōniae	alimōniīs
Accusative	alimōniam	alimōniās
Ablative	alimōniā	alimōniīs
Vocative	alimōnia	alimōniae

Synonyms

• alimentum

Descendants

• → English: alimony
  • → Welsh: alimoni
• → Irish: ailiúnas (calque)

References

• “alimonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• alimonia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• alimonia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.