# lucre
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English lūcre, lucor, lucour, lucur (“gain in money, profit; money; wages; illicit gain; advantage, benefit”), from Old French lucre or Latin lucrum (“advantage, profit; love of gain, avarice”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“gain, profit”) + *-tlom (variant of *-trom (suffix forming nouns denoting tools or instruments)).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈl(j)uː.kə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈluː.kɚ/
* Rhymes: -uːkə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: lu‧cre

### Noun

lucre (uncountable)
* Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 3:2–3:A Biſhop then muſt be blameleſſe, the huſband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behauiour, giuen to hoſpitalitie, apt to teach; / Not giuen to wine, no ſtriker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not couetous; […]
** 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 145:By-ends and Silver-Demas both agree; / One calls, the other runs, that he may be / A ſharer in his lucre; ſo theſe two / Take up in this World, and no further go.
** 1810 July 13, William Cobbett, “To the Reader”, in Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, volume XVIII, number 1, London: Printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street; and sold by Richard Bagshaw, Brydges Street, Covent-Garden, and John Budd, Pall-Mall, published 14 July 1810, →OCLC, columns 13–14:When a man bargains for the price of maintaining such or such principles, or of endeavouring to make out such or such a case, without believing in the soundness of the principles or the truth of the case; such a man, whether he touch the cash (or paper-money) before or after the performance of his work, and whether he work with his tongue or his pen, may, I think be fairly charged with seeking after "base lucre;" for he, in such case, manifestly sells not only the use of his talents, but his sincerity into the bargain, and drives a traffic as nearly allied to soul-selling as any thing in this world can be; […]
** 1884 December, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Body Snatcher”, in Pall Mall Christmas “Extra”, London, →OCLC; republished as “The Body-snatcher”, in The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: The Black Arrow; The Misadventures of John Nicholson; The Body-snatcher, volume 8, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895, →OCLC, page 421:[…] [I]t's only fair that you should pocket the lucre. I've had my share already.

#### Synonyms

* mammon

#### Derived terms

* filthy lucre

#### Related terms

* lucrative
* lucratively
* lucrativeness
* Lucretia
* Lucretius
* lucriferous
* lucrific

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “lūcre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* ↑ “lucre, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* lucre (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* cruel, ulcer

## French
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lucrum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lykʁ/

### Noun

lucre m (plural lucres)
* lucre

#### Related terms

* lucratif

### Further reading

* “lucre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Verb

lucre
* inflection of lucrar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Portuguese
### Verb

lucre
* inflection of lucrar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

lucre
* inflection of lucrar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative