Anillustration of aperson experiencing lumbago. Thenoun is borrowed fromLate Latin lumbāgō ( “ backache of the lumbar region ” ) , from Late Latinlumbus ( “ lumbar ” ) ,Latin lumbus ( “ loin ” ) [ 1] Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- ( “ loins ” ) ) +-āgō ( suffix forming nouns describing objects, animals, and plants) .
Theverb is derived from the noun.[ 2]
lumbago (countable anduncountable plural lumbagos ( pathology , also attributively )
( uncountable ) Backache of thelumbar region orlower back , which can becaused bymuscle strain or aslipped disc .Synonyms: low back pain ( abbreviation ) LBP 1935 John Palmer ], chapterVII , inThe Norwich Victims , London: Arcturus Publishing, published2013 ,→ISBN →OL Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge oflumbago .
1953 Gilbert Ryle , “Dilemma VII: Perception”, inDilemmas: TheTarner Lectures , 1953 , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, New York, N.Y.:Cambridge University Press , published1954 (1987 printing) ,→ISBN page105 :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, oflumbago and of depression upon their performances.
( countable ) episode of such backache.backache of the lumbar region
Arabic:أَلَمْ قَطَنِيّ ( ʔalam qaṭaniyy ) ,أَلَمْ اَلْقَطَنْ ( ʔalam al-qaṭan ) Basque:lunbagoa lunbalgia Bulgarian:лумбаго ( lumbago ) ,болка в кръста ( bolka v krǎsta ) Catalan:lumbago (ca) ,dolor lumbar m or f lumbàlgia Chinese:Mandarin:下背痛 ( xiàbèitòng ) ,腰痛 (zh) ( yāotòng ) Czech:bederní ústřel m houser (cs) m Dutch:lumbago (nl) ,spit (nl) n verschot (nl) n Esperanto:lumbalgio Finnish:noidannuoli (fi) French:lumbago (fr) m lombalgie (fr) f tour de reins (fr) m Georgian:ჭვალი ( č̣vali ) German:Lumbago n Hexenschuss (de) m Lumbalgie f Greek:οσφυαλγία (el) f ( osfyalgía ) Ancient Greek:ὀσφυαλγία f ( osphualgía ) Hebrew:מתנת Hungarian:lumbágó (hu) ,derékzsába (hu) Icelandic:þursabit n lendagigt f Ido:lumbago (io) Indonesian:nyeri punggung Irish:lumbágó Italian:lombaggine f lombalgia (it) f lumbalgia f Japanese:腰痛 (ja) ( ようつう, yōtsū ) Korean:요통 ( yotong ) Kyrgyz:люмбаго ( lyumbago ) Macedonian:лумбаго ( lumbago ) Norwegian:Bokmål:lumbago Polish:lumbago (pl) n postrzał (pl) m heksenszus m Portuguese:lumbago (pt) m lombalgia (pt) f Romanian:lumbago (ro) n dorsalgia joasă durerea lombară Russian:люмба́го (ru) n ( ljumbágo ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:крижо̀боља f Roman:križòbolja (sh) f Slovene:lumbago bolečina v križu f Spanish:lumbago m lumbalgia f Swedish:ryggskott n Tajik:люмбаго ( lyumbago ) Thai:ปวดหลังส่วนล่าง Ukrainian:люмбаго ( ljumbaho ) Uzbek:belangi (uz) Vietnamese:đau lưng dưới y chứng đau lưng Walloon:clipe (wa)
lumbago (third-person singular simple present lumbagos present participle lumbagoing simple past and past participle lumbagoed
( transitive ) affect (someone) withlumbago .to affect (someone) with lumbago
^ “lumbago,n. ”, inOED Online Oxford University Press ,1903 “lumbago,n. ”, inLexico Dictionary.com ;Oxford University Press ,2019–2022 ^ “lumbago,v. ”, inOED Online Oxford University Press ,1903 . Borrowed fromLate Latin lumbāgō
lumbago m plural lumbagos
( pathology ) lumbago ( pain in the lower back ) 1946 Le métier d'homme :Firmin souffrait d’unlumbago ; il ne pouvait plus «mouveter», le pauvre ! Firmin hadlumbago ; he could no longer move a muscle, poor man! Learned borrowing fromLatin lumbāgō [ 1] [ 2]
IPA (key ) : /lumˈba.ɡɔ/ Rhymes:-aɡɔ Syllabification:lum‧ba‧go lumbago n indeclinable
( pathology ) low back pain ,lumbago Synonyms: heksenszus postrzał lumbago inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANlumbago in Polish dictionaries at PWN
lumbago m plural lumbagos
( pathology ) lumbago ( pain in the lower back ) Borrowed fromFrench lumbago Latin lumbago
lumbago n uncountable
lumbago FromLatin lumbāgō
IPA (key ) : /lumˈbaɡo/ [lũmˈba.ɣ̞o] Rhymes:-aɡo Syllabification:lum‧ba‧go lumbago m plural lumbagos
( pathology ) lumbago Synonym: lumbalgia 
, Oxford:Oxford University Press,1903;“lumbago,n.”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
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