alimony

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Etymology

Known since 1655, from Latin alimonia (“food, support, nourishment, sustenance”) (English aliment, as in alimentary), itself from alere (“to nourish”) + -monia (“action, state, condition”).

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Noun

alimony (plural alimonies)

1. (law) A court-enforced allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person.
2. The means to support life.

Derived terms

• palimony

Related terms

• aliment
• alimentary

Translations

a court-enforced allowance

• Bulgarian: издръжка (bg) (izdrǎžka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 贍養費 (cmn), 赡养费 (cmn) (shànyǎngfèi)

• Czech: výživné (cs) n, alimenty (cs) m pl
• Danish: hustrubidrag (da) n
• Dutch: alimentatie (nl) f, alimentatiegeld (nl) n
• Esperanto: nutramono (eo)
• Finnish: elatusapu (fi)
• French: pension alimentaire (fr) f

• German: Unterhalt (de) m, Alimente (de) pl
• Greek: επίδομα διατροφής (el) (epídoma diatrofís) n , (colloquial) διατροφή (el) (diatrofí) f 
• Japanese: (離婚 (ja) (りこん, rikon)) 扶養料 (ja) (ふようりょう, fuyōryō)
• Portuguese: pensão (pt)
• Russian: алименты (ru) (aliménty) m pl 
• Spanish: pensión (es) (alimenticia (es)) f
• Swedish: underhåll (sv)

the means to support life

• Dutch: onderhoud n, dagelijks brood n, levensonderhoud n
• Greek: τροφεία (el) (trofeía) n pl 

• Latin: alimonia (la) f
• Russian: средства к существованию (ru) (srédstva k suščestvovániju) n pl 

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• Serbo-Croatian: alimentacija (sh) f
• Italian: alimenti (it)

• Japanese: 別居扶助料 (bekkyo fujoryō)
• Telugu: మనోవర్తి (te)