alimony

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.lɪ.mə.ni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.lɪ.moʊ.ni/

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• Rhymes: -əʊni

Noun

alimony (countable and uncountable, plural alimonies)

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

Synonyms

• (allowance to a former spouse): maintenance

Derived terms

• alimonious
• palimony
• vaginamony

Related terms

• aliment
• alimentary

Translations

a court-enforced allowance

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

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

• Czech: výživné n, alimenty (cs) m pl
• Danish: hustrubidrag n
• Dutch: alimentatie (nl) f, alimentatiegeld n
• Esperanto: nutramono, alimento (eo)
• Finnish: elatusapu (fi)
• French: pension alimentaire (fr) f
• Georgian: ალიმენტი (alimenṭi)
• German: Unterhalt (de) m, Alimente (de) pl

• Greek: επίδομα διατροφής n (epídoma diatrofís), (colloquial) διατροφή (el) f (diatrofí)
• Irish: ailiúnas m
• Italian: alimenti (it) m pl
• Japanese: (離婚 (ja) (りこん, rikon)) 扶養料 (ふようりょう, fuyōryō)
• Portuguese: pensão alimentícia f, pensão (pt) f
• Romanian: pensie de întreținere (ro) f, pensie alimentară (ro) f
• Spanish: pensión (es) (alimenticia (es)) f
• Swedish: underhåll (sv)
• Thai: ค่าอุปการะเลี้ยงดู (kâa-ùp-bpà-gaa-rá-líiang-duu)
• Ukrainian: аліме́нти (uk) m pl (aliménty)

the means to support life

• Dutch: onderhoud (nl) n, dagelijks brood n, levensonderhoud (nl) n
• Finnish: toimeentulo (fi), elanto (fi), elatus (fi)
• Greek: τροφεία (el) n pl (trofeía)

• Irish: ailiúnas m
• Latin: alimonia f
• Russian: сре́дства к существова́нию n pl (srédstva k suščestvovániju)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} alimenti (it)
• Japanese: 別居扶助料 (bekkyo fujoryō)

• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} alimentacija f
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} మనోవర్తి (te) (manōvarti)