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) 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. Japanese: (離婚 (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.

Russian: средства к существованию (ru) (srédstva k suščestvovániju) n. pl.

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Serbo-Croatian: alimentacija (hr) f. Italian: alimenti (it)

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