usure
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French usure.
Verb
usure (third-person singular simple present usures, present participle usuring, simple past and past participle usured)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To commit usury.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for usure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Eurus, UUers, eurus
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /y.zyʁ/
- Rhymes: -yʁ
Etymology 1
From Latin ūsūra.
Noun
usure f (usually uncountable, plural usures)
- (finance) usury
Related terms
- usuraire (adjective)
- usurier m, usurière f
Etymology 2
user + -ure
Noun
usure f (uncountable)
- wear and tear, wear
Derived terms
- avoir à l'usure
- guerre d'usure
- usure phonétique
Further reading
- “usure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- sueur
Italian
Noun
usure f
- plural of usura
Latin
Participle
ūsūre
- vocative masculine singular of ūsūrus
Middle English
Alternative forms
- usur, usere, user
Etymology
From Old French usure, from Latin ūsūra.
Noun
usure (plural usures)
- To lend money in order to make interest; usury.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prioresses Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868:
- foul vsure and lucre of vileynye Hateful to Crist.
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- Interest on a loan.
- A loan.
Synonyms
- usurie
Related terms
- usurere
References
- “ūsūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-31.