alumnus

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin alumnus (“foster child, nourished one”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /əˈlʌmnəs/ === Noun === alumnus (plural alumni or alumnuses) A male pupil or student. A male graduate. A student of any gender. A graduate of any gender. ==== Usage notes ==== 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. ==== Synonyms ==== (of any gender): alum or alumn, alumni (often proscribed), alumnx ==== Coordinate terms ==== (male): alumna (female) ==== Derived terms ==== alumni association ==== Related terms ==== alumnae/alumnæ alum alma mater alimony alimentary ==== Translations ==== == Indonesian == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin alumnus. === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /aˈlumnus/ [aˈlum.nʊs] Rhymes: -umnus Syllabification: a‧lum‧nus === Noun === alumnus (plural alumnus-alumnus or para alumnus or alumni) alumnus Synonyms: alumni, lulusan === Further reading === “alumnus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Italian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin alumnus. === Noun === alumnus m alumnus (a graduate) Synonym: alunno == Latin == === Alternative forms === alunnus === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *alomanos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-o-mh₁no- (“being nourished”), mediopassive participle (see *-mh₁nos) of *h₂el- (“to nourish, grow”) (whence alō). Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to nourish, grow”) + *-mno- (see *-mn̥). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈɫʊm.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈlum.nus] === Adjective === alumnus (feminine alumna, neuter alumnum); first/second-declension adjective Nourished, fostered, etc. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === Noun === alumnus m (genitive alumnī, feminine alumna); second declension nursling, pupil foster son student, follower ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== English: alumnus Catalan: alumne Italian: alunno Portuguese: aluno Romanian: alumn Spanish: alumno === References === “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, 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.