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lucra

lucra is a Latin form of lucrum, meaning “profit, gain”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun or vocative plural neuter noun or accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.85: … am tu totam insulam cuidam tuorum sodalium sicut aliquod munusculum condonaras, ab hac etiam haec frumentaria lucra tamquam a mediterraneis exigebantur? itaque qui tot annis agellos suos te praetore redimere a piratis soleban …

Tibullus, Elegiae 1.9.7: Lucra petens habili tauros adiungit aratro

All forms of lucrum (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.