alimonia

== Latin == === Alternative forms === alimōnium === Etymology === From alō (“I nourish”, or a related adjectival root) +‎ -mōnia. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.lɪˈmoː.ni.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.liˈmɔː.ni.a] === Noun === alimōnia f (genitive alimōniae); first declension food, nourishment feeding, nurture ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== 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, 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.