# lumbago
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /lʌmˈbeɪɡəʊ/
* Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˌlʌmˈbeɪˌɡoʊ/, /ˌləm-/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪɡəʊ
* Hyphenation: lum‧ba‧go

### Noun

lumbago (countable and uncountable, plural lumbagos) (pathology, also attributively)
* (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.
* (countable) An episode of such backache.

#### Related terms

* lumbaginous

#### See also

* Thesaurus:pain

### Verb

lumbago (third-person singular simple present lumbagos, present participle lumbagoing, simple past and past participle lumbagoed)
* (transitive) To affect (someone) with lumbago.

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “lumbago, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1903; “lumbago, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* ↑ “lumbago, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1903.

### Further reading

* low back pain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## French
### Alternative forms

* lombago

### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin lumbāgō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lœ̃.ba.ɡo/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

lumbago m (plural lumbagos)
* (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!

### Further reading

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

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lumbāgō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lumˈbaɡɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɡɔ
* Syllabification: lum‧ba‧go

### Noun

lumbago n (indeclinable)
* (pathology) low back pain, lumbago
    Synonyms: heksenszus, postrzał

### References

* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “lumbago”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* ↑ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “lumbago”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN

### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /lũˈba.ɡu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /lũˈba.ɡu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /lũˈba.ɡo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /lũˈba.ɡu/ [lũˈba.ɣu]
* Hyphenation: lum‧ba‧go

### Noun

lumbago m (plural lumbagos)
* (pathology) lumbago (pain in the lower back)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French lumbago, from Latin lumbago.

### Noun

lumbago n (uncountable)
* lumbago

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin lumbāgō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lumˈbaɡo/ [lũmˈba.ɣ̞o]
* Rhymes: -aɡo
* Syllabification: lum‧ba‧go

### Noun

lumbago m (plural lumbagos)
* (pathology) lumbago
    Synonym: lumbalgia

### Further reading

* “lumbago”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014