I.nourishment, food, sustenance, support: “quaestus alimoniae,” Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 1: “naturalis,” Gell. 17, 15, 5: “flammae,” fuel, Prud. Cath. 5, 19; App. M. 2, p. 115: “in alimoniam ignis,” for the food of the burnt-offering, Vulg. Lev. 3, 16; ib. 1 Macc. 14, 10.
ălĭmōnĭa , ae, f. alo (ante- and postclass. for alimentum),