Trends ofusury Shareusury ‘cite’ https://www.etymonline.com/word/usury Etymology of usury by etymonline Harper, D. (n.d.). Etymology of usury. Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved January 21, 2025, from https://www.etymonline.com/word/usury Harper Douglas, “Etymology of usury,” Onl...
is from 1780. Related:Rapidly;rapidness.Rapid-fire(adj.) 1890 in reference to guns, figurative or transferred use by 1900; the noun phrase is by 1836.Rapid-transitfirst attested 1852, in reference to street railways;rapid eye movement, associated with a certain phase of sleep, is from 1906...
Etymology of the word Cherubim The word כרוב (kerub) is without root or equal in the Hebrew language — or at least, in the Hebrew language preserved in the Bible — so we don't exactly know what it might have meant to the Hebrews. It might be that, even for them, the...
Nounרבב(rabab), describes a smear of viscous fat, an obvious sign that someone was well off. That same noun was spelledרבד(rabad), which may have helped the formation of the wordραβδος(rabdos), staff, rod or scepter. ...
1610s, "pertaining to the womb" (from early 15c. as "having the same birth-mother"), from Old Frenchuterin, from Late Latinuterinus"pertaining to the womb," also "born of the same mother," from Latinuterus"womb" (seeuterus).
, from Latin usurpare "make use of, seize for use," in later Latin "to assume unlawfully, trespass on," from usus "a use" (see use (v.)) + rapere "to seize" (see rapid (adj.)). Related: Usurped; usurping.AdvertisementTrends of usurper adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. N...
In Middle English sometimes extended to usury or the charging of interest. Middle English also hadtheftly"furtively" (late 14c.);theftuous"thievish" (c. 1500). From the usurer to his sons, there a current swiftly runs ; From the sons to queans in chief, from the gallant to the thief...
"payment for work, use, or services; wages," from late Old Englishhyr"wages; interest, usury," from the verb or from a Proto-Germanic*hurja-(seehire(v.)). Cognate with Old Frisianhere, Dutchhuur, Germanheuer, Danishhyre. Entries linking tohire ...
[The termcapital] made its first appearance in medieval Latin as an adjectivecapitalis(fromcaput, head) modifying the wordpars, to designate the principal sum of a money loan. The principal part of a loan was contrasted with the "usury"—later called interest—the payment made to the lender...
Autensilis literally something to be used ; the word has by usage become restricted to articles of domestic and farming use. [Century Dictionary, 1891] Earlier, in the broader sense, in such collocations asutensils of war(1670s); in 1689 gibbets wereutensils of state. ...