usura
See also: ușura
Galician
Noun
usura f (plural usuras)
- usury
Further reading
- “usura” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uˈzu.ra/
- Rhymes: -ura
- Hyphenation: u‧sù‧ra
Etymology 1
From Latin ūsūra (“use; enjoyment”), derived from ūsus, perfect passive participle of ūtor (“to use; to enjoy”).
Noun
usura f (plural usure)
- (obsolete, finance) interest (price of credit)
- Synonym: interesse
- (obsolete, finance) usury (practice of lending money at interest)
- usury (exorbitant rate of interest in excess of any legal rates)
Derived terms
- usuraio
- usureggiare
Related terms
- usare
- uso
- usurario
- usuriere
Further reading
- usura1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French usure, derived from user (“to use”).
Noun
usura f (plural usure)
- wear (damage caused by use over time)
- (figurative) deterioration
Derived terms
- usurare
Related terms
- usurante
- usurato
Further reading
- usura2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
usura
- inflection of usurare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Latin
Etymology
From ūtor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /uːˈsuː.ra/, [uːˈs̠uːrä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /uˈsu.ra/, [uˈs̬uːrä]
Noun
ūsūra f (genitive ūsūrae); first declension
- use, enjoyment
- interest (on a loan)
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ūsūra | ūsūrae |
| Genitive | ūsūrae | ūsūrārum |
| Dative | ūsūrae | ūsūrīs |
| Accusative | ūsūram | ūsūrās |
| Ablative | ūsūrā | ūsūrīs |
| Vocative | ūsūra | ūsūrae |
Descendants
- English: usury
- French: usure
- Italian: usura
- Serbo-Croatian: ušur
References
- “usura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “usura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- usura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to lend some one money (without interest): pecuniam alicui credere (sine fenore, usuris)
- interest at 1 per cent per month, 12 per cent per annum: centesimae (sc. usurae) (Att. 5. 21. 11)
- 6 per cent: usurae semissium (Colum.)
- 6 per cent: usurae semisses (Jurists)
- 3 per cent (a quarter of centesima): quadrantes usurae
- 4 per cent: trientes or trientariae usurae (Att. 4. 15)
- 5 per cent: quincunces usurae
- monthly interest: usura menstrua
- to lend some one money (without interest): pecuniam alicui credere (sine fenore, usuris)
- “usura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Piedmontese
Alternative forms
- üsüra
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /yˈzyra/
Noun
usura f (plural usure)
- usury
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uˈzu.ɾɐ/
- Rhymes: -uɾɐ
- Hyphenation: u‧su‧ra
Noun
usura f (plural usuras)
- usury (exorbitant rate of interest)
- (uncountable) usury (practice of lending money at exorbitant rates)
- Synonym: agiotagem
- any exploitative transaction
Verb
usura
- inflection of usurar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “usura” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin usura. Cognate with English usury.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uˈsuɾa/ [uˈsu.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -uɾa
- Syllabification: u‧su‧ra
Noun
usura f (plural usuras)
- usury
Related terms
- usurero
Further reading
- “usura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014