FromFrenchaliment, fromLatinalimentum(“food”).
aliment (countable anduncountable,pluralaliments)
- (now rare)Food.
1822,John Barclay, chapter I, inAn 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 receivealiment; [...]
- (figuratively)Nourishment,sustenance.
1597,Francis Bacon, “Of the Coulers of Good and Evill. A Fragment.”, inJames Spedding,Robert Leslie Ellis, andDouglas Denon Heath, editors,The Works of Francis Bacon, […], volume VII, London:Longman, Green, and Co.; […], published1859,→OCLC,pages90–91:As whenDemosthenes reprehended the people for hearkening to the conditions offered by KingPhilip, being not honourable nor equal, he saith they were butaliments 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, published1992, page356:All this monotony might be a goodaliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts?
- (Scotland) Anallowance formaintenance;alimony.
an allowance for maintenance
—seealimonyaliment (third-person singular simple presentaliments,present participlealimenting,simple past and past participlealimented)
- (obsolete) Tofeed,nourish.
- Tosustain,support.
2002,Colin Jones,The Great Nation, Penguin, published2003, page434: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.
Borrowed fromLatinalimentum.
aliment m (pluralaliments)
- (piece of)food
- “aliment”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “aliment”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025
- “aliment” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “aliment” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
FromLatinalimentum.
aliment m (pluralaliments)
- 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 thefoods which it thus rejects with disdain, did it think of trying them.
aliment m (pluralalimens)
- item offood
FromLatinalimentum.
aliment m (pluralaliments)
- item offood
Borrowed fromFrenchaliment, fromLatinalimentum.
aliment n (pluralalimente)
- food (any substance consumed by living organisms to sustain life)
- Synonym:mâncare
