alimonia

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

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

alimōnia f (genitive alimōniae); first declension

1. food, nourishment
2. feeding, nurture

First-declension noun.

• alimentum

• → English: alimony

• “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.