different between usurer vs usure

English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman, from Old French usurier, Latin ?s?ra (“interest”).

Compare usurper and use

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ju?????/, /?ju?zj???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ju??????/, /?ju?????/

Noun

usurer (plural usurers)

1. A person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 4:

     Profitless usurer, why dost thou use

     So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?

   • 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, chapter XLIII

     "You can go to the Carpetbag usurers if you want money."

Synonyms

• banker, loan shark

Hyponyms

• saraf (early modern Middle East & India), shroff (early modern India & SE Asia)

Related terms

• usuress (rare)
• usurial
• usurious
• usury

Translations

References

Anagrams

• rusure

Middle English

Noun

usurer

1. Alternative form of usurere

Swedish

Noun

usurer

1. indefinite plural of usur

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.