different between sucre vs lucre

English

Etymology

Spanish Sucre, from the name of Venezuelan independence leader Antonio José de Sucre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?su?k?e?/

Noun

sucre (plural sucres)

1. The former currency of Ecuador, divided into 100 centavos.

Anagrams

• Cruse, Cures, crues, cruse, cuers, cures, curse, ecrus

Catalan

Etymology

From Old French çucre, from Medieval Latin zuccarum, from Old Italian zucchero, from Arabic ??????? (sukkar), from Persian ???? (šekar), from Sanskrit ?????? (?árkar?, “ground or candied sugar”); see sugar for more details.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?su.k??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?su.k?e/

Noun

sucre m (plural sucres)

1. sugar

Derived terms

Further reading

• “sucre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sucre” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sucre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sucre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Old French çucre, from Medieval Latin zuccarum, from Old Italian zucchero, from Arabic ??????? (sukkar), from Persian ???? (šekar), from Sanskrit ?????? (?árkar?, “ground or candied sugar”); see sugar for more details.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syk?/

Noun

sucre m (plural sucres)

1. sugar

Derived terms

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: sik
• ? Danish: sucrose
• ? English: sucrose
• ? Malecite-Passamaquoddy: sukol (or from English)
• ? Rade: s?k

Further reading

• “sucre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• crues, crûes, cures, curés, écrus, reçus, sucer

Middle English

Noun

sucre

1. Alternative form of sugre

Old French

Noun

sucre m (nominative singular sucres)

1. Alternative form of çucre

Spanish

Etymology

From the name of Venezuelan independence leader Antonio José de Sucre.

Noun

sucre m (plural sucres)

1. sucre (former currency of Ecuador)

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.