alumnus

Learned borrowing from Latin alumnus (“foster child, nourished one”).

• IPA^(key): /əˈlʌmnəs/

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alumnus (plural alumni or alumnuses, feminine alumna)

1. A male pupil or student.
2. A male graduate.
3. A student of any gender.
4. A graduate of any gender.

• Even when the -us/-a gender distinction is operative, alumnus is used when the gender of the subject is unspecified:

Any alumnus may be invited to the reunion.

• (of any gender): alum or alumn, alumni (often proscribed), alumnx

• (male): alumna (female)

• alumni association

• alumnae/alumnæ
• alum
• alma mater
• alimony
• alimentary

Learned borrowing from Latin alumnus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈalʊmnʊs]
• Hyphenation: alum‧nus

alumnus (first-person possessive alumnusku, second-person possessive alumnusmu, third-person possessive alumnusnya)

1. alumnus.

• alumni

• “alumnus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Latin alumnus.

alumnus m

1. alumnus (a graduate)

   Synonym: alunno

• From Proto-Italic *alomanos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-o-mh₁no- (“being nourished”), mediopassive participle (see *-mh₁nos) of *h₂el- (“to nourish, grow”) (whence alō).[1][2]
• Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to nourish, grow”) + *-mno- (see *-mn̥).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈlum.nus/, [äˈɫ̪ʊmnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈlum.nus/, [äˈlumnus]

alumnus (feminine alumna, neuter alumnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Nourished, fostered, etc.

First/second-declension adjective.

alumnus m (genitive alumnī, feminine alumna); second declension

1. nursling, pupil
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.151–152:

     pervenit ad Cranēn et rem docet, illa ‘timōrem
     pōne: tuus sospes’ dīxit ‘alumnus erit.’

     She comes to Cranê and tells her what has happened; [and to] that, Cranê replies: “Put fear aside; your nursling will be unharmed.”
     (A nurse-maid summons Cranê’s aid because a baby has been attacked by striges; however, Ovid in these verses conflates names and mythologies: see Cardea.)

2. foster son.
3. student, follower

Second-declension noun.

• English: alumnus
• Catalan: alumne
• Italian: alunno
• Portuguese: aluno
• Romanian: alumn
• Spanish: alumno

• “alumnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “alumnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• alumnus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• alumnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.