Etymology: < French lombard (whence Middle Low German lombard , Middle Dutch lombaert , modern Dutch lombard ), < Italian lombardo (medieval Latin lombardus ), contracted representing late Latin Langobardus , Longobardus , Germanic *Laŋgobarđo-z , -barđon- (Old English plural Langbeardas , -beardan , Old Norse plural Langbarðar ); a compound of *laŋgo- long adj.¹ with the proper name of the people, which appears in Latin form as Bardi; in Old English poetry they are called Heaðobeardan ( < heaðo war). The sense ‘banker, moneylender, pawnbroker’ was common in Old French, whence it passed to Middle Low German and Middle Dutch The sense ‘bank, pawnbroker's shop’ was probably developed in Middle Low German and Middle Dutch, and seems to have been adopted thence into English; in this sense a feminine lombaerde occurs in Middle Dutch beside the masculine lombaert (Dutch lombard , lommerd ). A special development of meaning belongs to the variant lumber n.²

Etymology: < obsolete Spanish lombarda. The word has been supposed to be a misprint for bombarda bombard n. Compare however the very common late Greek λουμπάρδα, λουμπάρτα, apparently synonymous with βουμβάρδα, μπουμπάρδα bombard.