FromMiddle Englishusurie, fromLatinūsūria, fromūsūra(“lending at interest, usury”) fromūsus(“use”), from stem ofūtī(“to use”). Compareusurp anduse.
usury (countable anduncountable,pluralusuries)
- (countable) Anexorbitant rate ofinterest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally.
- (uncountable) The practice oflending money at such rates.
- (uncountable, religion, archaic or historical) The practice oflending money at interest.
4th centuryBCE, Aristotle, translated by Benjamin Jowett,Politics, Book I, Part X:The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, isusury, which makes a gain out ofmoney itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used inexchange, 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, […], published1592,→OCLC; reprinted asTamburlaine 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 andvſurie.
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 orf
- Esperanto:uzuro
- Faroese:okur n
- 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
- Indonesian:riba (id)
- Japanese:高利 (ja)(こうり, kōri)
- Korean:고리대금(高利貸金) (ko)(goridaegeum)
- Latin:ūsūra immodica f
- Macedonian:лихва f(lihva)
- Manx:use m
- Maori:whakatuputupu moni
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:åger (no) m orn
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic:лихва f(lixva)
- Ottoman Turkish:مرابحه(murabaha)
- Persian:ربا (fa)(rebâ)
- 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
usury
- Alternative form ofusurie
