Lombard meaning
A banker or moneylender.
noun
A member of a Germanic people that invaded northern Italy in the sixth century ad and established a kingdom in the Po River valley.
noun
A native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
noun
A person born or living in Lombardy.
noun
A member of an ancient Germanic people that settled in the Po Valley.
noun
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A banker or moneylender.
noun
Of Lombardy or the Lombards.
adjective
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Of or relating to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy.
adjective
Origin of lombard
- Middle English Lumbarde from Old French lombard from Old Italian lombardo from Medieval Latin lombardus from Latin Langobardus, Longobardus del-1 in Indo-European roots Sense 3, from the prominence of Lombards in 13th-century banking
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English Lombard, Lumbard, from the merger of Old English Longbeard (“Lombard"); and Old French Lombard, Lombart (“a Lombard"), from Late Latin Longobardus, Langobardus (“a Lombard"), derived from the Proto-Germanic elements *langaz + *bardaz; equivalent to long +"Ž beard. Some sources derive the second element instead from Proto-Germanic *bardÇ, *barduz (“axe"), related to German Barte (“axe").
From Wiktionary