See Also: Lombard(encyclopedia)
Lombard(dictionary)
Lombard, Etienne(medicine)
Benihana (Lombard)(tourism)
Lombard Street(dictionary)
Peter Lombard(encyclopedia)
Lombard League(encyclopedia)
Lombard (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Lombard, Carole(encyclopedia)
Lombard rate(finance)

Lombard (iou)



Lombard noun1 & adjective. ME.
[Middle Dutch, Middle Low German lombaerd or French lombard from Italian lombardo (medieval Latin lombardus) repr. late Latin Langobardus, Longo-, Latin langobardi (Tacitus) from Germanic, from base of LONG adjective1 + ethnic name Bardi. Cf. LANGOBARD, LONGOBARD. See also LUMBER noun2.]
A. noun.
Hist. A member of a Germanic people from the lower Elbe who invaded Italy in the 6th cent. and founded a kingdom named Lombardy after them. ME.
A native or inhabitant of the region of Lombardy in north central Italy. Formerly spec., one engaged in banking, money-changing, or pawnbroking; hence any banker, money-changer, or pawnbroker. LME.
The Italian dialect of modern Lombardy. L16.
A bank, a money-changer's or moneylender's office; a pawnshop. Cf. LUMBER noun2. E17-L18.
b. adjective. Of or pertaining to the Lombards or Lombardy; Lombardic. ME.
Special collocations & comb.: Lombard band Architecture a shallow pilaster dividing a wall into bays. Lombard Street [a street in London, orig. occupied by Lombard bankers and still containing many of the principal London banks] the money market, financiers as a body; Lombard Street to a China orange, great wealth against one ordinary object, virtual certainty.
Lom'bardian adjective = LOMBARDIC adjective M19.
Lombardism noun a Lombardic idiom E19.
Lom'bardo- combining form. [after Italian Lombardo-Veneto] Lombardic and : L19.