lumbifragium

Coined by Plautus, from lumbus (“loin, genitals”) +‎ frangō (“to break”) +‎ -ium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫʊm.bɪˈfra.ɡi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [lum.biˈfraː.d͡ʒi.um]

lumbifragium n (genitive lumbifragiī or lumbifragī); second declension

1. loin or groin injury

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “lumbĭfrăgĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lumbĭfrăgĭum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• lumbifragium in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “lumbifragium”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC