Etymology
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From Middle English usurie, from Latin ūsūria, from ūsūra (“lending at interest, usury”) from ūsus (“use”), from stem of ūtī (“to use”). Compare usurp and use.
Pronunciation
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usury (countable and uncountable, plural usuries)
- (countable) An exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally.
- (uncountable) The practice of lending money at such rates.
- (uncountable, archaic or historical) The practice of lending money at interest.
4th century BCE, Aristotle, translated by Benjamin Jowett, Politics, Book I, Part X:The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Profit.
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene v:Then will we march to all thoſe Indian Mines,
My witleſſe brother to the Chriſtians loſt:
And ranſome them with fame and vſurie.
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Translations
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exorbitant rate of interest in excess of any legal rates
- Albanian: fajde (sq) f
- Arabic: رِبَا (ar) m (ribā)
- Armenian: վաշխ (hy) (vašx)
- Belarusian: працэ́нт m (pracént), адсо́так m (adsótak)
- Bulgarian: ли́хва (bg) f (líhva)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 高利 (zh) (gāolì)
- Czech: lichva (cs) f, úžera (cs) f
- Danish: åger (da) c
- Dutch: woekerrente (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: uzuro
- Finnish: kiskurikorko
- French: usure (fr) f
- Georgian: მევახშური პროცენტი (mevaxšuri ṗrocenṭi), სამევახშეო პროცენტები (samevaxšeo ṗrocenṭebi)
- German: Wucher (de) m, Wucherzins (de) m
- Greek: τοκογλυφία (el) f (tokoglyfía)
- Hungarian: uzsora (hu), uzsorakamat (hu)
- Icelandic: okur n
- Japanese: 高利 (ja) (こうり, kōri)
- Korean: 고리(高利) (ko) (gori)
- Latin: ūsūra immodica f
- Macedonian: лихва f (lihva)
- Manx: use m
- Maori: whakatuputupu moni
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: åger (no) m or n
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: лихва f (lixva)
- Ottoman Turkish: مرابحه (murabaha)
- Polish: lichwa (pl) f
- Portuguese: usura (pt) f
- Romanian: camătă (ro) f, uzură (ro) f (dated)
- Russian: (ростовщический) проце́нт (ru) m ((rostovščičeskij) procént), лихва́ (ru) f (lixvá) (archaic)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ли̏хва f
- Roman: lȉhva (sh) f
- Slovak: úžera f
- Spanish: usura (es) f
- Swedish: ocker (sv) n
- Tagalog: pasong, pamamasong, labis na patubo
- Turkish: murabaha (tr)
- Ukrainian: відсо́ток m (vidsótok), проце́нт (uk) m (procént), лихва́ f (lyxvá), ли́хва f (lýxva)
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practice of lending money at illegal or unfair rates
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Middle English
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usury
- Alternative form of usurie