lucrum

From Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“profit, gain”) + *-tlom. Cognate with Laverna, Ancient Greek ἀπολαύω (apolaúō, “to enjoy”), λείᾱ (leíā), Sanskrit लोत्र (lotra, “booty”), German Lohn (“reward, wages”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌽 (laun).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.krum/, [ˈɫ̪ʊkrʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.krum/, [ˈluːkrum]

lucrum n (genitive lucrī); second declension

1. profit, advantage
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.689-690:

     ‘dā modo lucra mihi, dā factō gaudia lucrō,
     et fac, ut ēmptōrī verba dedisse iuvet.’

     “Just give me profits, give [me] joy at a profit by [my] exploit, and you make it, so that it pleases [me] to have been deceptive [in my] words to the buyer.”
     (A merchant is praying to Mercury (mythology).)

2. love of gain, avarice

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• (profit): damnum

• “lucrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lucrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lucrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lucrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to suffer loss, harm, damage.[2: damnum (opp. lucrum) facere
    
  • to make profit out of a thing: lucrum facere (opp. damnum facere) ex aliqua re
    
  • to consider a thing as profit: in lucro ponere aliquid (Flacc. 17. 40)
    
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “lŭcrum”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 371