usura

Borrowed from Latin ūsūra.

usura (uncountable)

1. (rare, archaic or poetic) Usury.
   • 1577, William Harrison, chapter 9, in Holinshed's Chronicles:

     In time past it was sors pro sorte – that is, the principal only for the principal; but now, beside that which is above the principal properly called Usura, we challenge Foenus – that is, commodity of soil and fruits of the earth, if not the ground itself.

   • 1905, Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism‎^[1]:

     Quite considerable sums, as the sources show, went at the death of rich people to religious institutions as conscience money, at times even back to former debtors as usura which had been unjustly taken from them.

   • 1937, Ezra Pound, The Cantos‎^[2]:

     With usura hath no man a house of good stone
     each block cut smooth and well fitting
     that design might cover their face,
     with usura
     hath no man a painted paradise on his church wall
     harpes et luz
     or where virgin receiveth message
     and halo projects from incision, […]

• IPA^(key): /uˈsuɾa/ [uˈs̺u.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Hyphenation: u‧su‧ra

usura f (plural usuras)

1. usury

• “usura”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

• IPA^(key): /uˈzu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: u‧sù‧ra

From Latin ūsūra (“use; enjoyment”), derived from ūsus, perfect passive participle of ūtor (“to use; to enjoy”).

usura f (plural usure)

1. (obsolete, finance) interest (price of credit)

   Synonym: interesse

2. (obsolete, finance) usury (practice of lending money at interest)
3. usury (exorbitant rate of interest in excess of any legal rates)

• usura¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from French usure, derived from user (“to use”).

usura f (plural usure)

1. wear (damage caused by use over time)
2. (figurative) deterioration

• usurare

• usura² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

usura

1. inflection of usurare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From ūtor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [uːˈsuː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [uˈs̬uː.ra]

ūsūra f (genitive ūsūrae); first declension

1. use, enjoyment
2. interest (on a loan)

First-declension noun.

• English: usury
• French: usure
• Italian: usura
• Portuguese: usura
• Spanish: usura
• Serbo-Croatian: ušur

• “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^[3], 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
    
• “usura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

• üsüra

• IPA^(key): /yˈzyra/

usura f (plural usure)

1. usury

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: u‧su‧ra

From Latin usura. Cognate with English usury.

usura f (plural usuras)

1. usury (exorbitant rate of interest)
2. (uncountable) usury (practice of lending money at exorbitant rates)

   Synonym: agiotagem

3. any exploitative transaction

usura

1. inflection of usurar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “usura” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

From Latin usura. Cognate with English usury.

• IPA^(key): /uˈsuɾa/ [uˈsu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: u‧su‧ra

usura f (plural usuras)

1. usury

• “usura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024