alumnus

Borrowed from Latin alumnus (literally “foster child, nourished one”).

• IPA^(key): /əˈlʌmnəs/

alumnus (plural alumni, feminine alumna)

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

Alumnus is used when the gender of the subject is unspecified.

Any alumnus may be invited to the reunion.

• alumni
• alumna
• alumnae/alumnæ
• alum

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈlum.nus/, [aˈɫʊm.nʊs]

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

1. Nourished, fostered, etc.

First/second declension.

alumnus m (genitive alumnī); second declension

1. Nursling, pupil, foster son.

Second declension.

• English: alumnus
• Catalan: alumne
• Italian: alunno
• Portuguese: aluno
• 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, 1883–1887)
• alumnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette