Lombard

Meanings

Noun

Proper Noun

  • A Romance language spoken in northern Italy and southern Switzerland.
  • ghost town Broadwater County (county) Montana (state) USA (country), named after A. G. Lombard.

Adjective

  • Of or relating to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy.

Origin

  • From Middle English Lombard, Lumbard, borrowed from Old French Lombard, Lombart, from Late Latin langobardus, longobardus, from Germanic, derived from the Proto-Germanic elements ; equivalent to . Some sources derive the second element instead from Proto-Germanic *bardĒ­, *barduz, related to German Barte. Langobard. Compare longbeard. Confer with Old English Longbeard.

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