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Yes. The word alumnus is a Scrabble US word. The word alumnus is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word alumnus is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

ALUMNUS,

6-letter words (1 found)

MANULS,

5-letter words (13 found)

ALUMS,LUAUS,LUMAS,LUNAS,MALUS,MANUL,MANUS,MAULS,NAMUS,ULANS,ULNAS,UNAUS,USUAL,

4-letter words (29 found)

ALMS,ALUM,ALUS,AMUS,ANUS,LAMS,LUAU,LUMA,LUMS,LUNA,LUNS,MALS,MANS,MASU,MAUL,MAUN,MNAS,MUNS,NAMS,NAMU,SAUL,SLAM,SLUM,SULU,ULAN,ULNA,ULUS,UMUS,UNAU,

3-letter words (28 found)

ALS,ALU,AMU,ANS,LAM,LAS,LUM,LUN,MAL,MAN,MAS,MNA,MUN,MUS,NAM,NAS,NUS,SAL,SAM,SAN,SAU,SMA,SUM,SUN,ULU,UMS,UMU,UNS,

2-letter words (12 found)

AL,AM,AN,AS,LA,MA,MU,NA,NU,UM,UN,US,

You can make 84 words from alumnus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of alumnus

alumnus

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin alumnus (“foster child, nourished one”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈlʌmnəs/

Noun

alumnus (plural alumni or alumnuses, feminine alumna)

  1. A male pupil or student.
  2. A male graduate.
  3. A student of any gender.
  4. A graduate of any gender.

Usage notes

  • Even when the -us/-a gender distinction is operative, alumnus is used when the gender of the subject is unspecified:
Any alumnus may be invited to the reunion.

Synonyms

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

Coordinate terms

  • (male): alumna (female)

Derived terms

  • alumni association

Related terms

  • alumnae/alumnæ
  • alum
  • alma mater
  • alimony
  • alimentary

Translations

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin alumnus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈalʊmnʊs]
  • Hyphenation: alum‧nus

Noun

alumnus (first-person possessive alumnusku, second-person possessive alumnusmu, third-person possessive alumnusnya)

  1. alumnus.

Alternative forms

  • alumni

Further reading

  • “alumnus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin alumnus.

Noun

alumnus m

  1. alumnus (a graduate)
    Synonym: alunno

Latin

Etymology

  • From Proto-Italic *alomanos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-o-mh₁no- (“being nourished”), mediopassive participle (see *-mh₁nos) of *h₂el- (“to nourish, grow”) (whence alō).
  • Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to nourish, grow”) + *-mno- (see *-mn̥).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈlum.nus/, [äˈɫ̪ʊmnʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈlum.nus/, [äˈlumnus]

Adjective

alumnus (feminine alumna, neuter alumnum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. Nourished, fostered, etc.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

alumnus m (genitive alumnī, feminine alumna); second declension

  1. nursling, pupil
  2. foster son.
  3. student, follower

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

  • English: alumnus
  • Catalan: alumne
  • Italian: alunno
  • Portuguese: aluno
  • Romanian: alumn
  • Spanish: alumno

References

  • “alumnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “alumnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • alumnus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • alumnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Source: wiktionary.org