alimentatio

Latin

Etymology

alimentō +‎ -tiō; in the legal sense an ellipsis of alimentātiō prōlis (“sustenance of the child”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.li.menˈtat.t͡si.o/, [älimen̪ˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

alimentātiō f (genitive alimentātiōnis); third declension (Medieval Latin)

1. feeding, sustenance

   Synonym: alimentum

2. (England, law) child support

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	alimentātiō	alimentātiōnēs
genitive	alimentātiōnis	alimentātiōnum
dative	alimentātiōnī	alimentātiōnibus
accusative	alimentātiōnem	alimentātiōnēs
ablative	alimentātiōne	alimentātiōnibus
vocative	alimentātiō	alimentātiōnēs

Descendants

• Asturian: alimentación
• Catalan: alimentació
• English: alimentation
• French: alimentation
• Galician: alimentación
• Italian: alimentazione
• Portuguese: alimentação
• Romanian: alimentație, alimentațiune
• Spanish: alimentación

References

• alimentatio 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)
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “alimentatio”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC