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aliment

English

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Etymology

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From French aliment, from Latin alimentum (“food”).

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aliment (countable and uncountable, plural aliments)

  1. (now rare) Food.
    • 1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization‎[1], Edinburgh, London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 1:
      In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; [...]
  2. (figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.
    • 1597, Francis Bacon, “Of the Coulers of Good and Evill. A Fragment.”, in James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, editors, The Works of Francis Bacon, […], volume VII, London: Longman, Green, and Co.;  […], published 1859, →OCLC, pages 90–91:
      As when Demosthenes reprehended the people for hearkening to the conditions offered by King Philip, being not honourable nor equal, he saith they were but aliments of their sloth and weakness, which if they were taken away, necessity would teach them stronger resolutions.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 356:
      All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts?
  3. (Scotland) An allowance for maintenance; alimony.

Verb

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aliment (third-person singular simple present aliments, present participle alimenting, simple past and past participle alimented)

  1. (obsolete) To feed, nourish.
  2. To sustain, support.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 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.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin alimentum.

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Noun

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aliment m (plural aliments)

  1. (piece of) food

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French

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From Latin alimentum.

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aliment m (plural aliments)

  1. 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.
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  • → Romanian: aliment

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Middle French

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Noun

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aliment m (plural alimens)

  1. item of food

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From Latin alimentum.

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aliment m (plural aliments)

  1. item of food
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Romanian

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Borrowed from French aliment, from Latin alimentum.

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aliment n (plural alimente)

  1. food (any substance consumed by living organisms to sustain life)
    Synonym: mâncare

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Declension of aliment
singular plural
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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