lucripeta

== Latin == === Etymology === From lucrum (“profit, advantage, gain”) + petō (“to seek”) + -a. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫʊˈkrɪ.pɛ.ta], [ɫʊkˈrɪ.pɛ.ta] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [luˈkriː.pe.ta], [lukˈriː.pe.ta] === Noun === lucripeta m (genitive lucripetae); first declension a gain seeker, one fond of lucre ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. === References === “lucripeta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “lucripeta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.