Lombard

Meaning

1. A kind of Spanish cannon of the 16th century.
2. A ghost town in Broadwater County, Montana, United States, named after A. G. Lombard.
3. A banker or moneylender.
4. A Romance (Gallo-Italic) language spoken in northern Italy, chiefly Lombardy, and Ticino in southern Switzerland.
5. A surname originating as an ethnonym.
6. A member of a Germanic people who invaded Italy in the 6th century.
7. A Lombard house.
8. Alternative form of Lombard (“cannon”).
9. Of, from or relating to Lombardy, Italy.
10. A native or inhabitant of Lombardy, Italy.

Etymology / origin

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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