English

Lombard rate

Lombard rate comes from English Lombard ‘banker or moneylender’.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Made of the words Lombard + rate

Proto-Germanic *langabardaz ‘Lombard, of or pertaining to the Lombards,…’

Late Latin langobardus

Old French Lombard

Middle English Lombard

Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁- ‘to think’

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Latin prō ratā parte ‘according to a fixed part’

Medieval Latin rata

Old French rate

Middle English rate

English rate

Every English word from English Lombard

noun An interest rate charged by a central bank for very short-term loans to other banks against an approved collateral.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.