usura

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See also: ușura

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uˈsuɾa/
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Hyphenation: u‧su‧ra

Noun

usura f (plural usuras)

  1. usury

Further reading

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)

  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)
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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)

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

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

Latin

Etymology

From ūtor.

Pronunciation

Noun

ūsūra f (genitive ūsūrae); first declension

  1. use, enjoyment
  2. 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
  • Portuguese: usura
  • Spanish: 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
  • “usura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

usura f (plural usure)

  1. usury

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -uɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: u‧su‧ra

Etymology 1

From Latin usura. Cognate with English usury.

Noun

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

Etymology 2

Verb

usura

  1. inflection of usurar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. 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/
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Syllabification: u‧su‧ra

Noun

usura f (plural usuras)

  1. usury

Related terms

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