alumna

English

Etymology

From Latin alumna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈlʌmnə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

alumna (plural alumnae or alumni or alumnas)

1. A female pupil or student (especially of a university or college).
2. A female graduate.

Hypernyms

• (of any gender): alum or alumn, alumni (often proscribed), alumnx
• (of unspecified gender): alumnus

Related terms

• alum
• alumnae
• alumni
• alumnus

Translations

a female pupil or student

• French: étudiante (fr) f, élève (fr) f
• Portuguese: aluna (pt) f
• Russian: ученица (ru) f (učenica), студентка (ru) f (studentka)
• Spanish: alumna (es) f

a female graduate

• French: diplômée (fr) f
• Portuguese: diplomada f
• Russian: выпускница (ru) f (vypusknica)
• Spanish: antigua alumna f, ex alumna f

a student

• French: étudiante (fr) f
• Spanish: estudiante (es)

a graduate

• French: diplômée (fr) f

Anagrams

• Lauman, Manual, manual

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈlum.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈlum.na]

Noun

alumna f (plural alumnes)

1. female equivalent of alumne

Latin

Adjective

alumna

1. inflection of alumnus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

alumnā

1. ablative feminine singular of alumnus

Noun

alumna f (genitive alumnae, masculine alumnus); first declension

1. nursling, pupil
2. foster daughter

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	alumna	alumnae
genitive	alumnae	alumnārum
dative	alumnae	alumnīs
accusative	alumnam	alumnās
ablative	alumnā	alumnīs
vocative	alumna	alumnae

Descendants

• English: alumna
• Catalan: alumne
• Italian: alunna
• Portuguese: aluna
• Romanian: alumnă
• Spanish: alumna

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.

Portuguese

Noun

alumna f (plural alumnas)

1. female equivalent of alumno

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈlumna/ [aˈlũm.na]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -umna
• Syllabification: a‧lum‧na

Noun

alumna f (plural alumnas)

1. female equivalent of alumno: female student

Further reading

• “alumno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alumna, from Latin alumna. The modern sense is a semantic loan from English alumna.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈlumna/ [ʔɐˈlum.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -umna
• Syllabification: a‧lum‧na

Noun

alumna (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜓᜋ᜔ᜈ)

1. female equivalent of alumno: alumna (female graduate)

   Synonyms: alumnay, (dated) eksalumna

2. (dated) female equivalent of alumno: alumna (female pupil or student)

   Synonyms: mag-aaral, estudyante

Related terms

• alumnay
• alumno
• eksalumna
• eksalumno

See also

• kolehiyala

Further reading

• “alumna”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.