aluno

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈluno/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: a‧lu‧no

Noun

aluno (accusative singular alunon, plural alunoj, accusative plural alunojn)

  1. alum

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /aˈlũ.nu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /aˈlu.no/

  • Hyphenation: a‧lu‧no

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin alumnus.[1]

Alternative forms

Noun

aluno m (plural alunos, feminine aluna, feminine plural alunas)

  1. student
    Synonyms: estudante, pupilo, (Brazil) escolar
  2. (Brazil, rare, derogatory, by extension) a student who is disinterested in actively learning, such as someone who attends classes just for the grades rather than knowledge (by comparison with the word estudante used more positively)
    • 2014, Thomaz Wood Jr., "Procuram-se estudantes" in CartaCapital #794:
      Aluno é aquele que atende regularmente a um curso, de qualquer nível, duração ou especialidade, com a suposta finalidade de adquirir conhecimento ou ter direito a um título. Já o estudante é um ser autônomo, que busca uma nova competência e pretende exercê-la, para o seu benefício e da sociedade. O aluno recebe. O estudante busca. Quando o sistema funciona, todos os alunos tendem a se tornar estudantes. Quando o sistema falha, eles se divorciam. É o que parece ocorrer entre nós: enquanto o número de alunos nos ensinos fundamental, médio e superior cresce, assombram-nos sinais do desaparecimento de estudantes entre as massas discentes.
      Aluno is someone who attends a course regularly, of any level, duration or specialty, with the supposed finality of acquiring knowlege or having the right to a title. However, the estudante is an autonomous being, who seeks a new competence and intends to exercise it, for their benefit and that of society. The aluno receives. The estudante seeks. When the system works, all the alunos tend to become estudantes. When the system fails, they divorce from each other. That is what seems to happen between us: while the number of alunos in the primary school, high school and higher education grows, there are haunting signs of the disappearance of estudantes among the mass of learners.
Quotations

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Descendants
  • Kabuverdianu: alunu

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

aluno

  1. first-person singular present indicative of alunar

References

  1. aluno” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
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