usure

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French usure

Verb

1. (intransitive) To commit usury.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “usure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Eurus, UUers, eurus

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.zyʁ/
• Rhymes: -yʁ

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ūsūra.

Noun

usure f (usually uncountable, plural usures)

1. (finance) usury

Related terms

• usuraire (adjective)
• usurier m, usurière f

Etymology 2

user +‎ -ure

Noun

usure f (uncountable)

1. wear and tear, wear

Derived terms

• usure phonétique

Anagrams

• sueur

Further reading

• “usure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

usure f

1. plural of usura

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) ūsūre

1. vocative masculine singular of ūsūrus

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• usur, usere, user

Etymology

From Old French usure, from Latin ūsūra.

Noun

usure (plural usures)

1. To lend money in order to make interest; usury.
   • Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "Prioress's Tale"

     foul vsure and lucre of vileynye Hateful to Crist.

2. Interest on a loan.
3. A loan.

Synonyms

• usurie

Related terms

• usurere

References

• “ūsūre (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-31.