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Lombard vs Lombardic - What's the difference?

lombard | lombardic |

As a noun lombard

is pawnbroker.

As an adjective lombardic is

of the lombards, a germanic people who settled in italy in the sixth century ce, or of their language or culture.

As a proper noun lombardic is

the language of the lombards, an extinct germanic language known from fragmentary evidence.

lombard

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A member of a Germanic people who invaded Italy in the 6th century; a Langobard.
  • A native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
  • (rare) A banker or moneylender.
  • (obsolete) Lombard house
  • * Fuller
  • a Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns
  • (military, historical) A form of cannon.
  • (Prescott)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A romance language spoken in northern Italy and southern Switzerland, see .
  • Derived terms

    * Lombard house * Lombardism * Lombard rate * Lombard Street

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy.
  • lombardic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of the Lombards, a Germanic people who settled in Italy in the sixth century C.E., or of their language or culture.
  • Synonyms

    * (of the Lombards) Lombardish, Langobardic, Langobardish

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The language of the Lombards, an extinct Germanic language known from fragmentary evidence.
  • * (projectlink)
  • Synonyms

    * (language) Lombardish, Langobardic, Langobardish