usurier

== French == === Etymology === From usure +‎ -ier. Compare also usuraire, from Latin ūsūrārius. === Noun === usurier m (plural usuriers, feminine usurière) usurer, moneylender; loan shark ==== Descendants ==== → Italian: usuriere === Adjective === usurier (feminine usurière, masculine plural usuriers, feminine plural usurières) 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) 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 === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “usurier”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC. usurer on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub