lumbago

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See also: Lumbago and lumbágó

English

WOTD – 28 January 2021
An illustration of a person experiencing lumbago.

Etymology

The noun is borrowed from Late Latin lumbāgō (“backache of the lumbar region”), from Late Latin lumbus (“lumbar”), Latin lumbus (“loin”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“loins”)) + -āgō (suffix forming nouns describing objects, animals, and plants).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

Noun

lumbago (countable and uncountable, plural lumbagos) (pathology, also attributively)

  1. (uncountable) Backache of the lumbar region or lower back, which can be caused by muscle strain or a slipped disc.
    Synonyms: low back pain, (abbreviation) LBP
    • 1935, Francis Beeding [pseudonym; John Palmer], chapter VII, in The Norwich Victims, London: Arcturus Publishing, published 2013, →ISBN, →OL, section 2:
      Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.
    • 1953, Gilbert Ryle, “Dilemma VII: Perception”, in Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, published 1954 (1987 printing), →ISBN, page 105:
      We may imagine an athletics coach with a scientific training researching into the physiology and the psychology of runners. [...] He finds out the effects of fatigue, of alcohol, of tobacco, of lumbago and of depression upon their performances.
  2. (countable) An episode of such backache.

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Verb

lumbago (third-person singular simple present lumbagos, present participle lumbagoing, simple past and past participle lumbagoed)

  1. (transitive) To affect (someone) with lumbago.

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References

  1. ^ “lumbago, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1903; “lumbago, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  2. ^ “lumbago, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1903.

Further reading

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin lumbāgō.

Pronunciation

Noun

lumbago m (plural lumbagos)

  1. (pathology) lumbago (pain in the lower back)
    • 1946, Yves Gandon, Le métier d'homme:
      Firmin souffrait d’un lumbago; il ne pouvait plus «mouveter», le pauvre !
      Firmin had lumbago; he could no longer move a muscle, poor man!

Further reading

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lumbāgō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lumˈba.ɡɔ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɡɔ
  • Syllabification: lum‧ba‧go

Noun

lumbago n (indeclinable)

  1. (pathology) low back pain, lumbago
    Synonyms: heksenszus, postrzał

References

  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “lumbago”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “lumbago”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN

Further reading

  • lumbago in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • lumbago in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: lum‧ba‧go

Noun

lumbago m (plural lumbagos)

  1. (pathology) lumbago (pain in the lower back)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lumbago, from Latin lumbago.

Noun

lumbago n (uncountable)

  1. lumbago

Declension

declension of lumbago (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) lumbago lumbagoul
genitive/dative (unui) lumbago lumbagoului
vocative lumbagoule

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin lumbāgō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lumˈbaɡo/
  • Rhymes: -aɡo
  • Syllabification: lum‧ba‧go

Noun

lumbago m (plural lumbagos)

  1. (pathology) lumbago
    Synonym: lumbalgia

Further reading

Wikious
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