köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek διατροφή (diatrophḗ). By surface analysis, δια- (dia-) + τροφή (trofí). For sense "alimony", semantic loan from French pension alimentaire.
köken: Plural of obsolete alimentum, aliment (“nourishment”), from Latin alimentum. Noun sense 1 is a semantic loan from German Alimente or French aliments. First attested in 1578.
köken: Etymology tree Latin alō Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Proto-Indo-European *-monyomder. Latin -mōnium Latin -mōnia Latin alimōnia From alō (“to nourish”, or a related adjectival root) + -mōnia.
köken: From oil (“to nourish”) + -únas, a calque of Latin alimōnia, with alteration of the initial o to a to match the Latin word as well as English alimony. A new formation, as the word does not appear in texts or dictionaries before the mid-20th century.