lucrum

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Latin

Etymology

From *lukrom, dissimilated from *luklom, from *lh₂utlom,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“profit, gain”) + *-tlom (“suffix denoting a tool”).[2] Cognate with Laverna, Ancient Greek ἀπολαύω (apolaúō, “to enjoy”), λείᾱ (leíā), Sanskrit लोत्र (lotra, “booty”), German Lohn (“reward, wages”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌽 (laun).

Pronunciation

Noun

lucrum n (genitive lucrī); second declension

  1. 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 joy at a profit by exploit, and you make it, so that it pleases to have been deceptive words to the buyer.”
      (A merchant is praying to Mercury (mythology).)
  2. love of gain, avarice

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative lucrum lucra
genitive lucrī lucrōrum
dative lucrō lucrīs
accusative lucrum lucra
ablative lucrō lucrīs
vocative lucrum lucra

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of “profit”): damnum

Derived terms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Albanian: lukër (“sheep”)
  • Aromanian: lucru (“thing”), lucuru
  • Catalan: llogre
  • Galician: logro (“profit”)
  • Megleno-Romanian: lucru (“thing”)
  • Portuguese: logro (“deceit”)
  • Romanian: lucru (“thing, work”)
  • Sardinian: lúcru, lúcuru
  • Sicilian: lucru
  • Spanish: logro (“success”)

Learned borrowings:

References

  1. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 248
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lucrum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 349-50

Further reading

  • “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)
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “lŭcrum”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 371
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