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|lshtext=<b>ălumnus</b>: a, um, adj. qs. contr. of alomenos, from alo.<br /><b>I</b> That is nourished, brought up; for the [[most]] [[part]] subst.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> ălumnus, i, m., a [[nursling]], a [[pupil]], [[foster]]-[[son]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lit. ([[most]] freq. in the poets.): desiderio alumnūm ( = alumnorum), Pac. ap. Non. 243, 6 (Trag. Rel. p. 116 Rib.): [[erus]] [[atque]] [[alumnus]] [[tuus]] [[sum]], Plaut. Merc. 4, 5, 7: [[quid]] voveat dulci [[nutricula]] majus [[alumno]]? Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 8; Verg. A. 11, 33: Tityon, terrae omniparentis alumnum, id. ib. 6, 595; so Ov. M. 4, 524; cf. [[with]] 421: legionum [[alumnus]], i. e. brought up in the [[camp]], Tac. A. 1, 44; cf. id. 1, 41: [[Vatinius]] sutrinae tabernae [[alumnus]], id. ib. 15, 34: suum flevit alumnum, Val. Fl. 8, 94: alumni hominum peccatorum, * Vulg. Num. 32, 14.—Of the inhabitants of a [[country]] (cf. [[altrix]]): [[Italia]] alumnum suum summo supplicio fixum videret, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 66; of [[cattle]]: Faune, abeas parvis Aequus alumnis, Hor. C. 3, 18, 3; so id. ib. 3, 23, 7.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Trop.: ego [[itaque]] pacis, ut ita dicam, [[alumnus]], Cic. Phil. 7, 3: [[alumnus]] fortunae, a [[child]] of [[fortune]], Plin. 7, 7, 5, § 43.—Hence, of pupils: Platonis [[alumnus]], [[pupil]], [[disciple]], Cic. Fin. 4, 26: [[alumnus]] disciplinae meae, id. Fam. 9, 14.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> ălumna, ae, f., a [[foster]]-[[daughter]], a [[pupil]]: nostra haec [[alumna]], Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 96: [[Italia]] omnium terrarum [[alumna]] [[eadem]] et [[parens]] (i. e. quae ab aliis terris alitur), Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 39: [[aliquam]] filiam et alumnam praedicare, Suet. Claud. 39: trepidam hortatur alumnam, Val. Fl. 5, 358.—Of frogs: aquai [[dulcis]] alumnae, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 9, 15.—Trop.: cana [[veritas]] Atticae philosophiae [[alumna]], [[truth]], the [[foster]]-[[child]] of Attic [[philosophy]], Varr. ap. Non. 243, 2: jam [[bene]] constitutae civitatis [[quasi]] [[alumna]] quaedam, [[eloquentia]], the [[foster]]-[[child]] of an [[already]] [[well]]-[[ordered]] [[state]], * Cic. Brut. 12, 45: [[cliens]] et [[alumna]] Urbis [[Ostia]] (as a [[colony]] of the [[same]]), Flor. 3, 21.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> The neutr.: [[numen]] alumnum, Ov. M. 4, 421.—<br /><b>II</b> In [[late]] Lat., [[act]]., [[nourishing]]; or subst., nourisher, one [[who]] brings up or educates: cygnus [[alumna]] stagna petierat, Mart. Cap. 1, p. 11.—Hence [[Isidorus]]: et qui alit et alitur, [[alumnus]] dici potest, Orig. 10, 1.

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