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語源

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.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /lʌmˈbeɪɡəʊ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌlʌmˈbeɪˌɡoʊ/, /ˌləm-/
• 韻: -eɪɡəʊ
• ハイフネーション: lum‧ba‧go

名詞

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.

関連する語

• lumbaginous

参考

• Thesaurus:pain

動詞

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

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

参照

Further reading

• low back pain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia