Words with the suffix _-tio_ we naturally think of as verbals, or nomina actionis, but in the following examples the context makes it fairly certain that they mean the same as their corresponding _-mentum_ nouns. Formamenta is found only twice: omnia _principiorum_ formamenta queunt in quovis esse nitore, Lucr. 2, 819; si vos fateremini id quod vestra suspicio credidisset formamentis _divinis_ attribuisse, minus erat iniuriae praesumpta in opinatione peccasse, Arn. 3, 16. In the first example, formamenta is used closely following formae and must mean the same thing, the “shapes” of the atoms; in the second example the adjective “divinis” indicates a similar meaning for formamentum; in the following example Vitruvius is giving directions concerning the building of a forum: ita enim erit _oblonga_ eius [_forum_] formatio et ad spectaculorum rationem utilis dispositio, Vitr. 5, 1. While the directions for the future building might lead us to believe that the word has a predominant verbal force, yet it is just as possible to conceive of it as expressing the result of the process; and this interpretation is even more probable, as the adjective oblonga would properly not be applied to a purely verbal noun. The verb fodior shows the identity in meaning between fundatio and fundamenta in the following instances: cum _fodientes_ delubro fundamenta caput humanum invenissent, Plin. 28, 2, 4; fundationes eorum operum _fodiantur_, Vitr. 3, 3. Res Romana and libertas are near enough alike to show that fundamen and fundamentum have the same general meaning in these instances: fundamine magno _res Romana_ valet, Ov. M. 4, 808; haec sunt fundamenta firmissima nostrae _libertatis_, Balb. 13. The contexts of hortamen and hortamentum in the two following examples are near enough alike to warrant our saying that the nouns might be interchanged: Decii eventus, ingens hortamen _ad_ omnia pro re publicia _audenda_, Liv. 10, 29, 5; in conspectu parentum coniugumque ac liberorum quae magna etiam _absentibus_ hortamenta _animi_ sunt, Liv. 7, 11, 6. There is undoubtedly no more verbal force in the following example of allevatio than in the example of allevamentum, (which is the only one extant): _tantis rebus_ urgemur, _nullam_ ut allevationem quisquam non stultissimus sperare debeat, Fam. IX, 1; Sulla coactus est in _adversis fortunis sine ullo_ remedio atque allevamento permanere, Sulla, 66. Besides alimentum there are two other nouns, formed on the verb alo, alimonium and alimonia, which also mean support or nourishment, as seen from these parallel examples: plus alimenti in _pane_ quam in ullo alio est, Cels. 2, 18; quid temperatus ab alimonio _panis_, cui rei dedistis nomen castus?, Arn. 5, 16; amisso omni _naturalis_ alimoniae fundamento, homo _exhaustus intereat_, Gell. 17, 15, 5.