Italian theologian whose four-volume Sentences (1148-1151) served as the standard textbook in theology for several centuries. |
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n. 1. A member of a Germanic people that invaded northern Italy in the sixth century AD and established a kingdom in the Po River valley. Also called Langobard. 2. a. A native or inhabitant of Lombardy. b. Any of a group of Romance languages spoken in Lombardy and adjacent regions and closely related to Provençal, Romansh, Franco-Provençal, and French. 3. A banker or moneylender. [Middle English Lumbarde, from Old French lombard, from Old Italian lombardo, from Medieval Latin lombardus, from Latin Langobardus, Longobardus; see del-1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots. Sense 3, from the prominence of Lombards in 13th-century banking.] Lom·bardic (-bärdĭk) adj. |
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