lucripeta
Latin
noun
Definitions
- a gain seeker, one fond of lucre
Etymology
Affix from Latin lucrum (profit, gain, advantage, love of gain, avarice, wealth) + Latin petō (attack, seek, I seek, aim at, I attack, I ask, beg, I aim for, aim, ask, attempt to obtain).
Origin
Latin
petō
Gloss
attack, seek, I seek, aim at, I attack, I ask, beg, I aim for, aim, ask, attempt to obtain
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
攻, 伐, 撃, 討
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- lucriferous English
- agripeta Latin
- appeto Latin
- competo Latin
- compitum Latin
- depetigo Latin
- impeto Latin
- lucrum Latin
- petesso Latin
- petimen Latin
- petō Latin
- praepes Latin
- repeto Latin
- suppeto Latin
- turpilucricupidus Latin
- lucro Italian
- lucre French
- logro Spanish, Castilian
- lucro Spanish, Castilian
- *leh₂w- Proto-Indo-European
- lucro Portuguese
- pytać Polish
- lucre Old French
- lucru Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- lucru Aromanian