alimonia

ălĭmōnĭa, ae, f. [alo] (ante- and postclass. for alimentum),

• nourishment, food, sustenance, support: quaestus alimoniae, Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 1 (53): naturalis, Gell. 17, 15, 5: flammae, fuel, Prud. Cath. 5, 19; Ap. Met. 2, 3, 4; in alimoniam ignis, for the food of the burnt-offering, Vulg. Lev. 3, 16; ib. 1 Macc. 14, 10.

alimōnia, ae, f. (alo), die Ernährung, der Unterhalt, Varr. sat. Men. 260. Gell. 17, 15, 5. Prud. cathem. 5, 19 u.a. Spät. (s. Bünem. Lact. 7, 4, 7. Hildebr. Apul. met. 5, 18. Rönsch Itala p. 28): Plur., Apul. met. 2, 3; apol. 85. Cod. Theod. 12, 12, 2. – ➳ Nicht mehr Plaut. Pers. 53.

alimonia, ~ium [CL] , nourishment, sustenance. b (fig.). c mensal land. d wife’s alimony. cujus ~ia, immo parsimonia, tam frugalis fuisse ferebatur ut ‥ herbarum fasciculis ‥ vesceretur Aldh. VirgP 38 p. 287; elimosynas in ~iam inopum dare Bede HE V 4; unde ‥ fratribus ‥ sufficientem usque ad autumnum ~iam divina miseratio ministraret Gir. IK I 7; 1221 quod ipsi canonici ‥ ad hospitum suscepcionem et pauperum ~iam [v. l. †alumpniam] fructus omnes ‥ convertant CurR X 40; annonam dicit ~iam ciborum et victum omnem monachorum Cust. Cant. 132.  b refectionis domum letabundus ingrediens omnes ad se confluentes et cibo corporis et spiritualis vite ~ia saginavit Osb. V. Dunst. 43; hora illa qua spiritalis ~ia assistentibus tradebatur Ailr. Ed. Conf. 748D; in ~ium spiritus manna celestis refectionis colligebat H. Bos. Thom. III 11; tu es intellectus celestis ~ia R. Bury Phil. 1. 15.  c 1126 terram que ad ~iam illius ecclesie pertinet Regesta II p. 354.  d in dicta taxatione ~iae, judex solet allocare uxori terciam ‥ partem annui valoris bonorum immobilium Praxis 36.

ălĭmōnĭa, æ, f. , et ălĭmōnĭum, ĭī, n. , nourriture, aliment : Varro Men. 260 ; Gell. 17, 15, 5 || Varro R. 3, 16, 15, etc. ; Tac. Ann. 11, 16.

alimonia , ae. f. et, v. alimonium
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