# alumnus
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /əˈlʌmnəs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### 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

* IPA: [ˈalʊmnʊs]
* Hyphenation: alum‧nus

### Noun

alumnus (plural)
* alumnus
    Dia seorang alumnus Universitas OxfordHe is an alumnus of Oxford University.

### Further reading

* “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.

## 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: /aˈlum.nus/, [äˈɫ̪ʊmnʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /aˈlum.nus/, [äˈlumnus]

### 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
** 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.)
* 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’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.
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 35
* ↑ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN