Lombard

Meanings

1. A member of a Germanic people who invaded Italy in the 6th century.
2. A native or inhabitant of Lombardy, Italy.
3. A banker or moneylender.
4. A Lombard house.
5. A kind of Spanish cannon of the 16th century.

1. A Romance (Gallo-Italic) language spoken in northern Italy, chiefly Lombardy, and Ticino in southern Switzerland.
2. A surname originating as an ethnonym.
3. A ghost town in Broadwater County, Montana, United States, named after A. G. Lombard.

1. Of, from or relating to Lombardy, Italy.

1. Alternative form of Lombard (“cannon”).

Etymology

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”).