casenier

Old French

Etymology

From Italian casana (“credit establishment”); influenced by case for the French sense of "homebody".

Noun

casenier oblique singular, m (oblique plural caseniers, nominative singular caseniers, nominative plural casenier)

1. an Italian banker, creditor, userer based in France

   comme li casenier italien demourans en nostre royaume. ― like the Italian userer residing in our kingdom.

2. (colloquial) stay-at-home, homebody
   • 15th century, Vincent Carloix, Mémoires de la vie de François de Scepeaux, sire de Vieilleville et comte de Duretal, maréchal de France, volume IV, section 10:

     Et environ huict ou dix mille bons chevaulx des arrierebans de la noblesse casaniere de mon royaume.

     And about eight or ten thousand good horses from the arrière-bans of the homesteader nobility of my realm.

Descendants

• French: casanier