Significatio vocis alo | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. to feed, to nourish, to nurture
   conjugation-3
2. to cultivate, to raise, to rear, etc. (as a child, an animal, etc.)
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3. to cause (a thing) to continue over time: to further, to maintain, to sustain
   conjugation-3
4. to encourage or promote the development (of a thing): to foster, to further, to promote (something)
   conjugation-3

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Hominum gratia generatur, aluntur bestiae.”

It is for the sake of man that beasts are bred.

“Fastīdientis stomachī est multa dēgustāre; quae ubi varia sunt et dīversa, inquinant nōn alunt.”

It is [the sign] of an overly delicate stomach [merely] to taste many [foods]; for when these are varied and different, they pollute rather than nourish. (Seneca’s diet metaphor: the effect of superficially reading too many authors.)

“Bellum sē ipsum alet.”

The war will further itself.

Gradus CEFR