alumne

From Latin alumnus.

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

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alumne m (plural alumnes, feminine alumna, feminine plural alumnes)

1. pupil, student

• “alumne”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “alumne”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “alumne” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “alumne” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

alumne

1. vocative singular of alumnus

From alumno and alumna; see -e.

• IPA^(key): /aˈlumne/ [aˈlũm.ne]
• Rhymes: -umne
• Syllabification: a‧lum‧ne

alumne gender-neutral (plural alumnes, feminine alumna, feminine plural alumnas, masculine alumno, masculine plural alumnos)

1. (gender-neutral, neologism) student
   • 2019, Mercedes Sánchez Sáinz, Pedagogías queer: ¿Nos arriesgamos a hacer otra educación?, Los Libros de la Catarata, →ISBN:

     Muches de mis alumnes vienen del activismo, muches han leído ya un montón de aportaciones y todes han vivido más de veinte años.

     Many of my students come from activism, many have already read a lot of contributions and all have lived more than twenty years.

• The letters x or e, or alternatively the symbol @, are occasionally used as gender-neutralizing letters in Spanish. Examples include novix in place of novia and novio, amigue in place of amiga and amigo, and latin@ instead of latina and latino.