Etymology

lucrous

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Today it means: Lucrative; gainful; profitable. Full definition →

Latin lucrōsus
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromlucrōsus“lucrative”
  2. English todaylucrous

From Latin lucrōsus (“lucrative”). By surface analysis, lucre + -ous.

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