Where does “usurer” come from?
Usurer comes from Old French usurier, from Latin usura meaning interest or usury, from usus meaning use, from uti meaning to use, from ut, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₃eyt-.
usurer (English): A person who loans money to others and charges...
Definitions
- A person who loans money to others and charges...
Ancestry of “usurer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | usurier | usurer |
| 2 | Latin | ūsūra | use, enjoyment |
| 3 | Latin | ūsus | use, employment, exercise, advantage |
| 4 | Latin | ūtor | to use, make use of, employ |
| 5 | Proto-Slavic | *ǫtorъ | croze |
| 6 | Proto-Slavic | torъ | paddock, pen |
| 7 | Proto-Slavic | terti | to rub, to scrape; to polish |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | terh₁- | to rub, turn; to drill, pierce |