| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Lombard |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Lom·bard |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  l m b rd, -bärd , l m- |
| NOUN: | 1. A member of a Germanic people that invaded northern Italy in the sixth century a.d. and established a kingdom in the Po River valley. Also called Langobard. 2. A native or inhabitant of Lombardy. 3. A banker or moneylender. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English Lumbarde, from Old French lombard, from Old Italian lombardo, from Medieval Latin lombardus, from Latin Langobardus, Longobardus. See del-1 in Appendix I. Sense 3, from the prominence of Lombards in 13th-century banking. | | OTHER FORMS: | Lom·bardic (-bärd k) —ADJECTIVE
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