lucre
English
/ˈluːkə/, /ˈluːkəɹ/
noun
Definitions
- Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English lūcre derived from Old French lucre derived from Latin lucrum (profit, gain, advantage, love of gain, avarice, wealth) derived from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (profit, benefit, prize, gain, plunder, catch).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*leh₂w-
Gloss
profit, benefit, prize, gain, plunder, catch
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- lucriferous English
- Laverna Latin
- lucripeta Latin
- lucrum Latin
- turpilucricupidus Latin
- lucro Italian
- lucre French
- logro Spanish, Castilian
- lucro Spanish, Castilian
- λεία Ancient Greek
- *leh₂w- Proto-Indo-European
- lucro Portuguese
- *launą Proto-Germanic
- lūcre Middle English
- lucre Old French
- lucru Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- *lawaros Proto-Celtic
- *lowgos Proto-Celtic
- lucru Aromanian