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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French aliment, from Latin alimentum (“food”).
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Noun[edit]
aliment (countable and uncountable, plural aliments)
- (now rare) Food.
- (figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.
- 1597, Francis Bacon, Of the Colours of Good and Evil
- aliments of their sloth and weakness
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 356:
- All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts?
- 1597, Francis Bacon, Of the Colours of Good and Evil
- (Scotland) An allowance for maintenance; alimony.
Verb[edit]
aliment (third-person singular simple present aliments, present participle alimenting, simple past and past participle alimented)
- (obsolete) To feed, nourish.
- To sustain, support.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 434:
- Yet there would also be many – and not simply the powerful and ultra-privileged – who lost out, and whose discontent operated as a kind of political yeast, alimenting ‘unpatriotic’ thoughts and acts.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 434:
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aliment m (plural aliments)
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Further reading[edit]
- “aliment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “aliment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “aliment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “aliment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French[edit]
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aliment m (plural aliments)
- food
- 1755, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes
- C’est ainsi qu’un pigeon mourrait de faim près d’un bassin rempli des meilleures viandes, et un chat sur des tas de fruits, ou de grain, quoique l’un et l’autre pût très bien se nourrir de l’aliment qu’il dédaigne, s’il s’était avisé d’en essayer.
- Thus a pigeon would be starved to death by the side of a dish of the choicest meats, and a cat on a heap of fruit or grain; though it is certain that either might find nourishment in the foods which it thus rejects with disdain, did it think of trying them.
- C’est ainsi qu’un pigeon mourrait de faim près d’un bassin rempli des meilleures viandes, et un chat sur des tas de fruits, ou de grain, quoique l’un et l’autre pût très bien se nourrir de l’aliment qu’il dédaigne, s’il s’était avisé d’en essayer.
- 1755, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes
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Further reading[edit]
- “aliment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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aliment m (plural alimens)
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Audio (file)
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aliment m (plural aliments)
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aliment n (plural alimente)
- food (any substance consumed by living organisms to sustain life)
Declension[edit]
Declension of aliment
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) aliment | alimentul | (niște) alimente | alimentele |
genitive/dative | (unui) aliment | alimentului | (unor) alimente | alimentelor |
vocative | alimentule | alimentelor |
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