Lombard
adj, name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A member of a Germanic people who invaded Italy in the 6th century. historical
- 2 Alternative form of Lombard (“cannon”). alt-of, alternative
"To oppose this , a wooden fortress of the same height was constructed by the assailants , and planted with lombards and other pieces of artillery then in use"
- 3 a member of a Germanic people who invaded northern Italy in the 6th century wordnet
- 4 A native or inhabitant of Lombardy, Italy.
- 5 A banker or moneylender. rare
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- 6 A Lombard house. obsolete
"a Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns"
- 7 A kind of Spanish cannon of the 16th century. historical
- 1 Of, from or relating to Lombardy, Italy.
- 1 A Romance language spoken in northern Italy and southern Switzerland. countable, uncountable
- 2 A surname originating as an ethnonym. countable
- 3 A ghost town in Broadwater County, Montana, United States, named after A. G. Lombard. countable, uncountable
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More examples"a Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns"
Etymology
From Middle English Lombard, Lumbard, borrowed from Old French Lombard, Lombart (“a Lombard”), from Late Latin langobardus, longobardus (“a Lombard”), from Germanic, derived from the Proto-Germanic *langabardaz from elements *langaz + *bardaz; equivalent to long + beard. Some sources derive the second element instead from Proto-Germanic *bardǭ, *barduz (“axe”), related to German Barte (“axe”). Doublet of Langobard and longbeard. Compare with Old English Langbeardas (“Lombards”).
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