alimentować

Polish

Etymology

From alimenty + -ować,[1] from Latin alimentum. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from French alimenter.[2] First attested in 1686–1721.[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.li.mɛnˈtɔ.vat͡ɕ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔvat͡ɕ
  • Syllabification: a‧li‧men‧to‧wać

Verb

alimentować impf

  1. (transitive, law) to pay alimony [+accusative = to whom]
    alimentować rodzicówto pay alimony to parents
    alimentować dzieckoto pay alimony for a child
    obowiązek alimentowaniathe duty/burden of paying alimony
    osoba alimentowanathe pay alimony
  2. (transitive, geography, of water sources) to feed (to supply water to a body of water) [+accusative = what] [+instrumental = with what]
  3. (transitive, obsolete) to aliment, to nourish[3][2]

Conjugation

Derived terms

noun
  • alimentowany
adjectives
nouns

References

  1. Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), alimentować”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  3. Barbara Rykiel-Kempf (19.03.2009), ALIMENTOWAĆ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  • Pęzik, Piotr; Przepiórkowski, A.; Bańko, M.; Górski, R.; Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine], Wydawnictwo PWN

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