Usury

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Usury from Medieval Latin usuria, "interest", or from Latin usura, "interest" originally was the charging of interest on loans; this included charging a fee for the use of money, such as at a bureau de change. In places where interest became acceptable, usury was interest above the rate allowed by law.

 

Today, usury commonly is the charging of unreasonable or relatively high rates of interest.

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Most hated money

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Aristotle said that most hated kind of money making was "...usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth, this is the most unnatural."

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Aristotle, Politics, 1258b.