almus

From Middle Low German halmosen or German Almosen.

almus (genitive almuse, partitive almust)

1. alms

From Proto-Italic *almos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow, nourish”). Cognate of alō, alumnus, and oleō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈal.mus/, [ˈäɫ̪mʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.mus/, [ˈälmus]

almus (feminine alma, neuter almum); first/second-declension adjective

1. nourishing
2. kind
3. propitious

First/second-declension adjective.

• Almus Spīritus
• alma māter

• → Italian: almo (learned)
• → Spanish: almo (learned)

• “almus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “almus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• almus 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)
• almus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “almus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]