student Copy link Outline I. In gen. sense, one who studies any subject regularlyII. Technically, a student at the university • student: I. In gen. sense, one who studies any subject regularly: Phr.: an ardent s., (homo) summe omnium doctrinarum studiosus, Cic. Fam. 4, 3, med.: a s. of music, law, rhetoric, (homo) musices, juris, rhetorices studiosus (v. devoted to): to be a s. of medicine, medicinae studere, Quint. 7, 2, 17: Cic.: to be a s. of the laws of nature, omnium rerum vim naturam causasque nosse studere, Cic. de Or. 1, 49, 212: to be a s. of literature, studium operamque in literas conferre, cf. id. Off. 1, 6, 19: literis incumbere: v. to devote (oneself). II. Technically, a student at the university: *schŏlāris, schŏlastĭcus (late and bad): Stat. Acad. Cant. p. 63. Students in arts, law, medicine, *studiosi artium, juris, medicinae, ib. pp. 42, 43: Kr. gives also, *academiae civis (e Ruhnk.). Phr.: to be a s. at the university, *literis in academia operam dare, navare; literarum causa in academia versari, Herm. (Kr.). [N. B.--The use of studiosus, without depend. gen., is late; but occurs in Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 5, as the title of a work by the Elder Pliny, "The Student."]