lucrative

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*leh₂w-“profit, gain”
2. Latin · derived fromlucrativus“profitable”
3. French · borrowed fromlucratif
4. English todaylucrative

Borrowed from French lucratif, from Latin lucrativus (“profitable”), from lucratus, past participle of lucror (“to gain”), from lucrum (“gain”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“profit, gain”). Compare Spanish lucrar. By surface analysis, lucre + -ative.

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