lumbago

The noun is borrowed from Late Latin lumbāgō (“backache of the lumbar region”), from Late Latin lumbus (“lumbar”), Latin lumbus (“loin”)^[1] (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“loins”)) + -āgō (suffix forming nouns describing objects, animals, and plants).

The verb is derived from the noun.^[2]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lʌmˈbeɪɡəʊ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌlʌmˈbeɪˌɡoʊ/, /ˌləm-/

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• Rhymes: -eɪɡəʊ
• Hyphenation: lum‧ba‧go

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.

• lumbaginous

• Thesaurus:pain

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

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

• low back pain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• lombago

Borrowed from Late Latin lumbāgō.

• IPA^(key): /lœ̃.ba.ɡo/

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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!

• “lumbago”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Learned borrowing from Latin lumbāgō.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /lumˈba.ɡɔ/

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• Rhymes: -aɡɔ
• Syllabification: lum‧ba‧go

lumbago n (indeclinable)

1. (pathology) low back pain, lumbago

   Synonyms: heksenszus, postrzał

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

• Hyphenation: lum‧ba‧go

lumbago m (plural lumbagos)

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

Borrowed from French lumbago, from Latin lumbago.

lumbago n (uncountable)

1. lumbago

From Latin lumbāgō.

• IPA^(key): /lumˈbaɡo/ [lũmˈba.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Syllabification: lum‧ba‧go

lumbago m (plural lumbagos)

1. (pathology) lumbago

   Synonym: lumbalgia

• “lumbago”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024