alumn

alumn (plural alumns)

1. Alternative spelling of alum.

• Lanum, Luman, Mulan, Ulman, alnum, manul, namul

Learned borrowing from Latin alumnus.^[1][2] First attested in 1602.^[3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.lumn/

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• Rhymes: -alumn
• Syllabification: a‧lumn

alumn m pers

1. (Roman Catholicism) seminarian, seminarist (student training to be a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary)

   Synonyms: kleryk, seminarzysta

   alumn seminarium ― a seminarian of a seminary

   formacja alumnów ― the formation of seminarians

2. (education) alumnus, graduate (person who has graduated)

   przyszły alumn ― a future alumnus

   uczyć alumna ― to teach an alumnus

   zostać alumnem ― to become an alumnus

   alumn studiuje ― an alumnus studies (at university)

   alumn uczy się ― an alumnus learns

3. (obsolete) student receiving free education and support

• alumn in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• alumn in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “alumn”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “alumn”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “alumn”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 28

Derived from Latin alumnus through German Alumnus or Italian alunno.

alumn m (plural alumni, feminine equivalent alumnă)

1. disciple, student

• “alumn”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Borrowed from Latin alumnus.

alumn c

1. alumnus (a graduate of a college or university)
2. (archaic) a student at a grammar school

The Latin plural alumni also occurs sometimes in Swedish texts.

• alumn in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• alumn in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• alumn in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• mulan, mulna