lucrum
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“profit, gain”) + *-tlom. Cognate with Laverna, Ancient Greek ἀπολαύω (apolaúō, “to enjoy”), λείᾱ (leíā), Sanskrit लोत्र (lotra, “booty”), German Lohn (“reward, wages”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌽 (laun).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.krum/, [ˈɫ̪ʊkrʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.krum/, [ˈluːkrum]
Noun
lucrum n (genitive lucrī); second declension
- profit, advantage
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.689-690:
- ‘dā modo lucra mihi, dā factō gaudia lucrō,
et fac, ut ēmptōrī verba dedisse iuvet.’- “Just give me profits, give [me] joy at a profit by [my] exploit, and you make it, so that it pleases [me] to have been deceptive [in my] words to the buyer.”
(A merchant is praying to Mercury (mythology).)
- “Just give me profits, give [me] joy at a profit by [my] exploit, and you make it, so that it pleases [me] to have been deceptive [in my] words to the buyer.”
- ‘dā modo lucra mihi, dā factō gaudia lucrō,
- love of gain, avarice
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | lucrum | lucra |
| Genitive | lucrī | lucrōrum |
| Dative | lucrō | lucrīs |
| Accusative | lucrum | lucra |
| Ablative | lucrō | lucrīs |
| Vocative | lucrum | lucra |
Antonyms
- (profit): damnum
Derived terms
Derived terms
- lucricupīdō
- lucrifaciō
- lucrificō
- lucrifuga
- lucriō
- lucripeta
- lucrius
- lucror
- lucrōsus
Related terms
- lucrātiō
- lucrātīvus
- lucrātor
- lucrifacio
- lucrificābilis
- lucrōsē
Descendants
- → Catalan: lucre
- → English: lucre
- → French: lucre
- → Italian: lucro
- → Occitan: lucre
- → Portuguese: lucro
- → Spanish: lucro
- Albanian: lukër
- Aromanian: lucru (“thing”), lucuru
- Catalan: llogre
- Esperanto: lukri
- Portuguese: logro (“deceit”)
- Romanian: lucru (“thing”)
- Sardinian: lúcru, lúcuru
- Sicilian: lucru
- Spanish: logro (“success”)
References
- “lucrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lucrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lucrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- lucrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to suffer loss, harm, damage.[2: damnum (opp. lucrum) facere
- to make profit out of a thing: lucrum facere (opp. damnum facere) ex aliqua re
- to consider a thing as profit: in lucro ponere aliquid (Flacc. 17. 40)
- to suffer loss, harm, damage.[2: damnum (opp. lucrum) facere
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “lŭcrum”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 371