Lumbus, lumbi, m. g. Plin. The loyne: the haunch.Lumbus vitulinus. Bud. A leg or knuckle of veale.Incurui lumbi.Ouid.Dolare lumbos alicuius fuste. Hor. Infringere lumbos. Hor. Duros qui nequeunt mouere lumbos. Cat. Lumbus etiam de brutis dicitur. Hor. Lumbus ficedule. Mart. The leg of.Lumbus léporis. Plin. The hinder leg of an hare.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lumbus, i, m., a loin. I.Lit.: At Edepol nos (velimus) tibi in lumbos linguam atque oculos in solum (decidisse), Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 68: exporgi meliust lumbos, id. Ps. prol. 24 (1); id. Ep. Grex, 2: lumborum tenus, Cic. Arat. 82: usque ad lumbos, Quint. 11, 3, 131: nautaeque caput lumbosque saligno Fuste dolat, Hor. S. 1, 5, 22: aprugnus, Plin. 8, 57, 78, 210; 20, 3, 8, 14: magno premit populus agmine lumbos, Juv. 3, 244.—As food: caprigeni lumbi, Macr. S. 2, 9, 12.—Prov.: lumbis patris habere se putat digitos grossiores, said of those who regard themselves as superior to their forefathers (cf. 1 Kings, 12, 10), Hier. Ep. 82, n. 3.—II.Transf.A.The genital organs, Pers. 1, 20; 4, 35; Juv. 9, 59.—Hence, in eccl. Lat.: in lumbis patris,
yet unborn
, Vulg. Heb. 7, 10: reges de lumbis tuis egredientur, id. Gen. 35, 11. —B.That part of a vine from which the branches spring, Col. Arbor. 3; Plin. 17, 23, 35, n. 26, 210.