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Latin
Noun
alimōnium n (genitive alimōniī or alimōnī); second declension
- nourishment, sustenance, support, nurture
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “alimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “alimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- alimonium 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)
- alimonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.