lombo

Galician

Lombo do Roncín ridge, Galicia

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese lombo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin lumbus (“loin”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lendhw- (“kidney, waist”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlombo̝/

Noun

lombo m (plural lombos)

1. (anathomy) back (the rear of body)
   • 1671, Gabriel Feixoo de Arauxo, Entremés famoso sobre da pesca do río Miño, page 15:

     Boteille catorce dentes fóra coa cachiporra [...] O lombo lle vai triscando

     I put out of him fourteen teeth with the club [...] his back is cracking as he walks away

   Synonym: costa

2. loin (meat)
3. hill, hillock
4. ridge
5. sandbank
6. high speed bump

   Synonym: lombiño

Derived terms

• lomba
• lombán
• lombeirazo
• lombeiro
• lombelo
• Lombiño
• Lombo
• Lombo Gordo
• solombo
• Sulombo

Related terms

• lumbar

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lombo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “lombo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From Latin lumbus, possibly through Osco-Umbrian (as the expected Latin form would be *lundus), from Proto-Italic *lonðwos, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰwos, from the root *lendʰ- (“to enter, penetrate, expand”). Cognate with Old English lynd (“fat, grease”), Old English lendenu (“loins”). More at lend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlom.bo/, [ˈl̺ombo]
• Hyphenation: lóm‧bo

Noun

lombo m (plural lombi)

1. (anatomy) loin
2. (by extension, in the plural) hips
3. loin (meat cut)

Derived terms

• lombare
• lombo-

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese lombo, from Latin lumbus (“loin”), from Proto-Germanic *landwīn, *landwiō (“waist, loins”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendhw- (“kidney, waist”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlõ.bu/
• IPA^(key): /ˈlõ.bo/

Noun

lombo m (plural s)

1. back (the rear of body)
2. loin (meat)

Synonyms

• (back): costas, dorso

Derived terms

• ter lombo para

Related terms

• lomba
• lombada
• lombar

• lombeira
• lombilho
• lombinho

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

Indonesian lombok

Noun

lombo

1. chile

   Yupela i save brukim kawawar na lombo na olgeta kain kumu long 10-pela hap na givim wanpela long God.
   You tithe ginger and chili [Greek mint and Syrian rue] and all kinds of herbs. Luke 11:42