usurier

usure +‎ -ier. Compare also usuraire, from Latin usurārius.

usurier m (plural usuriers)

1. usurer, moneylender; loan shark

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

1. acquisitive, avaricious

• “usurier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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

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

• English: usurer (borrowed)
• French: usurier

• 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