usurier

French

Etymology

From usure +‎ -ier. Compare also usuraire, from Latin ūsūrārius.

Noun

usurier m (plural usuriers, feminine usurière)

1. usurer, moneylender; loan shark

Descendants

• → Italian: usuriere

Adjective

usurier (feminine usurière, masculine plural usuriers, feminine plural usurières)

1. acquisitive, avaricious

Further reading

• “usurier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Noun

usurier oblique singular, m (oblique plural usuriers, nominative singular usuriers, nominative plural usurier)

1. usurer (a person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate)

Descendants

• → English: usurer
• French: usurier

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (usurier, supplement)
• usurer on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub