maintenance

Significat (English)

  1. Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
  2. A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
  3. Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
  4. Child support.
  5. Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
  6. The natural process which keeps an organism alive.

Freqüència

C1
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ˈmeɪnt(ə)nəns/
Etimologia (English)

In summary

From Middle English mayntenaunce, from Old French maintenance, from maintenir, from Latin manus tenēre (“to hold in the hand”). By surface analysis, maintain + -ance. Note that maintain has undergone a sound and spelling change, hence is spelt with -tain-, rather than the -ten- still found in maintenance.

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