alimonia

• alimōnium

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.lɪˈmoː.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.liˈmɔː.ni.a]

alimōnia f (genitive alimōniae); first declension

1. food, nourishment
2. feeding, nurture

First-declension noun.

• alimentum

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

• “alimonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "alimonia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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.