# usura
## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /uˈsuɾa/ [uˈs̺u.ɾɐ]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Hyphenation: u‧su‧ra

### Noun

usura f (plural usuras)
* usury

### Further reading

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

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
* (obsolete, finance) interest (price of credit)
    Synonym: interesse
* (obsolete, finance) usury (practice of lending money at interest)
* usury (exorbitant rate of interest in excess of any legal rates)

##### Derived terms

* usuraio
* usureggiare

##### Related terms

* usare
* uso
* usurario
* usuriere

#### Further reading

* usura$^1$ 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)
* wear (damage caused by use over time)
* (figurative) deterioration

##### Derived terms

* usurare

##### Related terms

* usurante
* usurato

#### Further reading

* usura$^2$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

usura
* inflection of usurare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Latin
### Etymology

From ūtor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /uːˈsuː.ra/, [uːˈs̠uːrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /uˈsu.ra/, [uˈs̬uːrä]

### Noun

ūsūra f (genitive ūsūrae); first declension
* use, enjoyment
* interest (on a loan)

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### 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

* üsüra

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /yˈzyra/

### Noun

usura f (plural usure)
* usury

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /uˈzu.ɾɐ/
* Rhymes: -uɾɐ
* Hyphenation: u‧su‧ra

### Etymology 1

From Latin usura. Cognate with English usury.

#### Noun

usura f (plural usuras)
* usury (exorbitant rate of interest)
* (uncountable) usury (practice of lending money at exorbitant rates)
    Synonym: agiotagem
* any exploitative transaction

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

usura
* inflection of usurar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** 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: /uˈsuɾa/ [uˈsu.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Syllabification: u‧su‧ra

### Noun

usura f (plural usuras)
* usury

#### Related terms

* dar a logro
* logrear
* usurero

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10