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.
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