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You can make 14 words from alum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of alum

alum laum aulm ualm luam ulam almu lamu amlu malu lmau mlau auml uaml amul maul umal mual luma ulma lmua mlua umla mula

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Definitions and meaning of alum

alum

Alternative forms

• alumn

Etymology 1

From Middle English alum, alum, alym, alyme, from Anglo-Norman alum, alun, from Latin alūmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæl.əm/
• Homophone: Allam

Noun

alum (countable and uncountable, plural alums)

1. An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K₂SO₄·Al₂(SO₄)₃·24H₂O). [from 14th c.]
2. (inorganic chemistry) Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations. [from 17th c.]

Synonyms

• (double sulphate of potassium and aluminum): potash alum

Derived terms

Related terms

• aluminiferous, aluniferous
• aluminiform
• aluminilite
• aluminise, aluminize
• aluminite
• aluminous
• alunite
• alunogen

Translations

See also

• apjohnite
• bosjemanite
• halotrichite
• kalinite
• websterite

Verb

alum (third-person singular simple present alums, present participle aluming, simple past and past participle alumed)

1. (transitive) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.

Derived terms

• unalumed

Translations

Etymology 2

From alumnus and alumna (> alumn- > alum), by the removal of the originally Latin gender-specific nominative singular case endings -us (masculine) and -a (feminine).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈlʌm/
• Rhymes: -ʌm

Noun

alum (plural alums or alumni)

1. (shortening, Canada, US) A past attendee or graduate (of either gender) of a college, university or other educational institution.
   • 1961 Spring, Anchora of Delta Gamma, Volume LXXVII, No. 3, page 59,

     Evanston-North Shore alums are happy to open their homes to Sigma actives for special social events.

Synonyms

• (of any gender): alumni (often proscribed), alumnx

Hyponyms

• (the original Latin gender-specific loanwords): alumna (feminine), alumnus (of unspecified gender or masculine)

Anagrams

• Lamu, luma, malu, maul, mula

Latin

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.lum/, [ˈäːɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lum/, [ˈäːlum]

Noun

ālum n (genitive ālī); second declension

1. A plant, the comfrey

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

References

• alum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “alum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Latvian

Noun

alum m

1. dative singular of alus

Middle English

Noun

alum

1. Alternative form of alym

Old French

Alternative forms

• allum, alun

Etymology

From Latin alūmen.

Noun

alum oblique singular, m (oblique plural aluns, nominative singular aluns, nominative plural alum)

1. alum

Descendants

• French: alun
• → Middle English: alym, alyme, alum, alume, alumme, alom, alome
  • English: alum
  • Scots: aum, awm, alm
• → Old High German: alūne
  • Middle High German: alūn
    • German: Alaun

References

• alum on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub