Etymology

lucriferous

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Today it means: gainful; profitable Full definition →

Latin lucrum
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromlucrum“gain”
  2. English todaylucriferous

From Latin lucrum (“gain”) + -ferous.

Words from the same roots

Latinlucrum all →

Lucretialucre

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