different between usure vs usury

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French usure

Verb

usure (third-person singular simple present usures, present participle usuring, simple past and past participle usured)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To commit usury.

Anagrams

• Eurus, UUers, eurus

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.zy?/
• Rhymes: -y?

Etymology 1

From Latin ?s?ra.

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

• guerre d'usure
• usure phonétique

Anagrams

• sueur

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

usure f

1. plural of usura

Latin

Participle

?s?re

1. vocative masculine singular of ?s?rus

Middle English

Alternative forms

• usur, usere, user

Etymology

From Old French usure, from Latin ?s?ra.

Noun

usure (plural usures)

1. To lend money in order to make interest; usury.

   • foul vsure and lucre of vileynye Hateful to Crist.

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

Synonyms

• usurie

Related terms

• usurere

References

• “?s?re, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-31.

English

Etymology

From Middle English usurie, from Latin ?s?ria, from ?s?ra (“lending at interest, usury”) from ?sus (“use”), from stem of ?t? (“to use”). Compare usurp and use.

Pronunciation

• enPR: yo?o'zh?-r?, IPA^(key): /?ju????i/

Noun

usury (countable and uncountable, plural usuries)

1. (countable) An exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally.
2. (uncountable) The practice of lending money at such rates.
3. (uncountable, archaic) The practice of lending money at interest.
   • 4th Century BCE, Template:rftranslator Aristotle, Politics, Book I, Part X,

     "The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest."

Synonyms

• oker

Related terms

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “usury”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Middle English

Noun

usury

1. Alternative form of usurie