nutrire (the proper word to give nourishment, care, and attention; figuratively, to favor, foment): alere (to support without denoting the means; figuratively, to maintain, continue): sustentare (PROP. and figuratively, to maintain, support, not suffer to fall). (The words are found in this connection and order.) sustentare et alere; alere et sustentare, victum praebere alicui (only PROP., to give what is requisite for the support of life; also of land, etc., which maintains anyone): augere (only figuratively, to increase, enlarge). (The words are found in this connection and order.) alere et augere (opposed to exstinguere): to nourish a person with anything, aliquem nutrire, or alere, or sustentare aliqua re (the former only of food; alere et sustentare also of the means by which one obtains a livelihood): to be nourished by anything, ali aliqua re (both of food and of the means of livelihood): vesci aliqua re (of food, e.g., carne, lacte): victum quaeritare aliqua re, se sustentare aliqua re (to gain a livelihood, support one’s self).