lombardiska — meaning in English

English meaning

• Lombard noun A member of a Germanic people who conquered and settled northern Italy in the 6th century.

Senses

lombardiska is used for these senses in English:

• Lombard A Romance language spoken in northern Italy and southern Switzerland.
• Lombardic The language of the Lombards, an extinct Germanic language known from fragmentary evidence.

Lombard — full definition

1. noun A member of a Germanic people who conquered and settled northern Italy in the 6th century.
2. noun A banker or moneylender — an old use of the word, from the reputation Lombard merchants had in medieval banking.
3. name The Gallo-Italic language spoken in Lombardy and parts of southern Switzerland.

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