lucrative

Senso (Inglese)

  1. Producing a surplus; profitable.
  2. Of a target: worth attacking; whose destruction is militarily useful.

Frequenza

C2
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

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

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