different between usurer vs usury

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

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