lumbus

Latin

Etymology

Possibly through Osco-Umbrian (as the expected Latin form would be *lundus), from Proto-Italic *lonðwos, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“to enter, penetrate, expand”).[1] Cognate with Old English lynd (“fat, grease”), lendenu (“loins”), Sanskrit रन्ध्र (rándhra). More at dialectal lend.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlum.bus/, [ˈɫʊm.bʊs]

Noun

lumbus m (genitive lumbī); second declension

  1. (anatomy) loin
  2. (in the plural) genitals

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lumbus lumbī
Genitive lumbī lumbōrum
Dative lumbō lumbīs
Accusative lumbum lumbōs
Ablative lumbō lumbīs
Vocative lumbe lumbī

Descendants

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 352

Further reading
  • lumbus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lumbus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lumbus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • lumbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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