different between receipts vs lucre

English

Pronunciation

Noun

receipts

1. plural of receipt

Verb

receipts

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of receipt

Anagrams

• crêpiest, piercest

English

Etymology

From Middle English l?cre, 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 *leh?w- (“gain, profit”) + *-tlom (variant of *-trom (“suffix forming nouns denoting tools or instruments”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?lu?k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lu?k??/
• Hyphenation: lu?cre

Noun

lucre (uncountable)

1. Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.

Synonyms

• mammon

Derived terms

• filthy lucre

Related terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• lucre (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• cruel, ulcer

Portuguese

Verb

lucre

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of lucrar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of lucrar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of lucrar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of lucrar

Spanish

Verb

lucre

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of lucrar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lucrar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lucrar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of lucrar.