lombard
/ˈlɑmbɑɹd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A native or inhabitant of Lombardy, Italy.
noun
A banker or moneylender.
name
A Romance (Gallo-Italic) language spoken in northern Italy, chiefly Lombardy, and Ticino in southern Switzerland.
Countable; Uncountable
name
A ghost town in Broadwater County, Montana, United States, named after A. G. Lombard.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "a Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns"
- "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"
- "As the Pinta's lookout sighted land on the early morn of October 12, 1492, the firing of a lombard carried the news over the moonlit waters to the flagship Santa Maria."
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Lombard, langobardus, *langabardaz, *bardǭ, Langbeardas
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlɑmbɑɹd/
- British English: /ˈlɒmbɑːd/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Lombards (plural)
Lumbard (alternative, obsolete)
Lumbar (alternative, obsolete)
more Lombard (comparative)
most Lombard (superlative)
Derived Forms
Lombardism
Lombardstown