usurier
French
Etymology
usure + -ier. Compare also usuraire, from Latin usurārius.
Noun
usurier m (plural usuriers)
Adjective
usurier (feminine usurière, masculine plural usuriers, feminine plural usurières)
Further reading
- “usurier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Noun
usurier oblique singular, m (oblique plural usuriers, nominative singular usuriers, nominative plural usurier)
- usurer (person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate)
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (usurier, supplement)
- usurer on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub