英文词源
- alimony
- alimony: [17] Alimony is an anglicization of Latin alimōnia, which is based on the verb alere ‘nourish’ (source of alma ‘bounteous’, as in alma mater, and of alumnus). This in turn goes back to a hypothetical root *al-, which is also the basis of English adolescent, adult, altitude (from Latin altus ‘high’), and old.
The original sense ‘nourishment, sustenance’ has now died out, but the specialized ‘support for a former wife’ is of equal antiquity in English. The -mony element in the word represents Latin -mōnia, a fairly meaning-free suffix used for forming nouns from verbs (it is related to -ment, which coincidentally was also combined with alere, to form alimentary), but in the later 20th century it took on a newly productive role in the sense ‘provision of maintenance for a former partner’. Palimony ‘provision for a former non-married partner’ was coined around 1979, and in the 1980s appeared dallymony ‘provision for somebody one has jilted’.
=> adult, altitude, alumnus, old - alimony (n.)
- 1650s, "nourishment," also "allowance to a wife from a husband's estate, or in certain cases of separation," from Latin alimonia "food, support, nourishment, sustenance," from alere "to nourish" (see old) + -monia suffix signifying action, state, condition (cognate with Greek -men). Derived form palimony coined 1979.
中文词源
alimony（赡养费）：离婚后给女方的生活费
夫妻离婚后，男方需要定期向女方支付一定的赡养费，以维持女方的基本生活所需。这种做法古已有之，中西方都有类似的法律。在史上最早的法典《汉谟拉比法典》中就明确规定：“一个男人如果想同给他生下子女的妻子或女子分手，就应该返还其嫁妆，并向其提供田地、花园等资产的部分权益，以保障她抚养孩子。”英语单词alimony的本意就是“生活费”，其中的词根ali表示“食物、营养”，如aliment（食物）。
alimony： ['æliməni] n.赡养费，生活费
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：alimony 词源，alimony 含义。
alimony：(离婚后一方给另一方的)生活费
词根al, 生长，滋养，同old. -mony, 名词后缀，词源同-ment.
alimony：赡养费，生活费
该词系从意为sustenance（食物）的拉丁语alimonia演化而来，也可说是由意为to nourish（养育）的拉丁词根alere和表示动作、结果、状态的后缀- mony这两个成分构成。alimony在英语中既特指“（离婚或分居后或在诉讼期间男方给女方的）赡养费”，也可泛指“生活费”， “抚养费”。这两个词义几乎同时出现于17世纪中期。英语中另有一个词aliment（食物）及其振生词alimentary（饮食的，营养的）亦源自这一拉丁词根。产生于1979年左右的palimony与alimony也有亲缘关系。该司系由pal（伙伴）和alirnony合成的缩合词，意思是“（非婚同居者分居后经法院判定由一方付给另一方的）同居生活费”。