It means gift, donation, obolus, help, charity, donation. What is given to another who is in need and without expecting anything in return. What is given to a beggar or needy.
Well, gift, money, which is given for charity to meet the needs of those who can't do it by themselves. Medieval Latin eleemosyna took it from the Greek 949; 955; 949; 951; 956; 959; 963; 965; 957; 951; ( elehemosyne "pity" ) .
Donation or aid given to the needy, usually money. You mean compassion and mercy; initially stated the attitude of the merciful man, and then all the works of charity to the needy.
Only I can infer that the word charity, comes from slime, dáimon Greek mythology, who was the son of the goddess Eris, and representing the hunger...