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.men̪ˈt̪at̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Noun
alimentātiō f (genitive alimentātiōnis); third declension (Medieval Latin)
- feeding, sustenance
- Synonym: alimentum
- (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