alumna
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈlʌmnə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
alumna (plural alumnae or (archaic) alumnæ, masculine alumnus)
- A female pupil or student (especially of a university or college).
- A female graduate.
Hypernyms
Translations
a female pupil or student
a female graduate
a student
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Latin
Adjective
alumna
- inflection of alumnus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | alumna | alumnae |
Genitive | alumnae | alumnārum |
Dative | alumnae | alumnīs |
Accusative | alumnam | alumnās |
Ablative | alumnā | alumnīs |
Vocative | alumna | alumnae |
Descendants
References
- “alumna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “alumna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- alumna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈlumna/ [aˈlũm.na]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -umna
- Syllabification: a‧lum‧na
Further reading
- “alumno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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