Lucriferous, pronounced loo-KRIF-uh-ruhs, is an adjective meaning profitable or lucrative. It comes from Latin words for 'profit' and 'producing' and was documented in 1648.
Lucriferous (loo-KRIF-uh-ruhs) is an adjective meaning lucrative or profitable. It is derived from Latin roots meaning 'profit' and 'producing', and was first documented in 1648.
| Front | lucriferous \loo-KRIF-uhr-uhs\ |
|---|---|
| Back | adjective Lucrative, profitable. [From Latin lucrum (profit) + -ferous (producing). Earliest documented use: 1648.] "Freed from any ambition to leave my heirs rich, I had no need to pursue lucriferous experiments, to which I so much preferred luciferous [providing light or insight] ones." - Chemist and physicist Robert Boyle (1627-1691), who gave us Boyle's Law of gases, in a letter to John Locke, 17th c. |
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