lombo

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlombo/
• Rhymes: -ombo
• Hyphenation: lom‧bo

lombo m (plural lombos)

1. (anatomy) back (the rear of body)

   Synonym: costa

   • 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

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

   Synonym: lombiño

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “lombo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lombo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lombo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lombo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lombo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlom.bo/
• Rhymes: -ombo
• Hyphenation: lóm‧bo

lombo m (plural lombi)

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

• lombare
• lombo-

• → Slavomolisano: luma

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

• Rhymes: -õbu
• Hyphenation: lom‧bo

lombo m (plural lombos)

1. back (the rear of body)

   Synonyms: costas, dorso

2. loin (meat)

   lombo de porco ― porc loin

   lombo de vaca ― beef loin

• Kabuverdianu: lonbu
• Papiamentu: lomba

From Indonesian lombok, from Javanese ꦭꦺꦴꦩ꧀ꦧꦺꦴꦏ꧀ (lombok).

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 and all kinds of herbs. Luke 11:42