usura

See also: ușura

Galician

Noun

usura f (plural usuras)

1. usury

Further reading

• “usura”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin ūsūra

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈzu.ra/

Noun

usura f (plural usure)

1. usury, interest on a loan
2. wear, damage caused by habitual use

Related terms

(1)

• usuraio
• usurario
• usureggiare

(2)

• uso
• usurare

Verb

usura

1. inflection of usurare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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Latin

Etymology

From ūtor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /uːˈsuː.ra/, [uːˈs̠uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /uˈsu.ra/, [uˈs̬uːrä]

Noun

ūsūra f (genitive ūsūrae); first declension

1. use, enjoyment
2. interest (on a loan)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ūsūra	ūsūrae
Genitive	ūsūrae	ūsūrārum
Dative	ūsūrae	ūsūrīs
Accusative	ūsūram	ūsūrās
Ablative	ūsūrā	ūsūrīs
Vocative	ūsūra	ūsūrae

Descendants

• English: usury
• French: usure
• Italian: usura

References

• “usura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “usura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• usura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lend some one money (without interest): pecuniam alicui credere (sine fenore, usuris)
    
  • interest at 1 per cent per month, 12 per cent per annum: centesimae (sc. usurae) (Att. 5. 21. 11)
    
  • 6 per cent: usurae semissium (Colum.)
    
  • 6 per cent: usurae semisses (Jurists)
    
  • 3 per cent (a quarter of centesima): quadrantes usurae
    
  • 4 per cent: trientes or trientariae usurae (Att. 4. 15)
    
  • 5 per cent: quincunces usurae
    
  • monthly interest: usura menstrua
    
• “usura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• üsüra

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yˈzyra/

Noun

usura f (plural usure)

1. usury

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u.ˈzu.ɾa/
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Hyphenation: u‧su‧ra

Noun

usura f (plural usuras)

1. usury (exorbitant rate of interest)
2. (uncountable) usury (practice of lending money at exorbitant rates)
3. any exploitative transaction

Synonyms

• (lending of money at exorbitant rates): agiotagem

Verb

usura

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

Further reading

• Template:R:DAN

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin usura. Cognate with English usury.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈsuɾa/ [uˈsu.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: u‧su‧ra

Noun

usura f (plural usuras)

1. usury

Related terms

• usurero

Further reading

• “usura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014