The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromlūbricus“slippery”
- English todaylubricious
Learned borrowing from Latin lūbricus (“slippery”). Doublet of lubricous.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
lubricious
Today it means: Smooth and glassy; slippery. Full definition →
Latin lūbricus