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FromMiddle Englishsalarie, fromAnglo-Normansalarie, fromOld Frenchsalaire, fromLatinsalārium(“wages”), the neuter form of the adjectivesalārius(“related to salt”), fromsal(“salt”). There have been various attempts to explain how the Latin term for “wages” came from the adjective “related to salt”. It is generally assumed thatsalārium was an abbreviation ofsalāriumargentum(“salt money”), though that phrase is not attested. A commonly cited theory is that the phrase meant “money consisting of salt”, because Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, but there is no evidence for this from ancient sources. Another is that the phrase meant “money used to buy salt [and other miscellaneous items]”.[1]

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salary (pluralsalaries)

  1. A fixed amount ofmoney paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, aswages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
    • c.1599–1602 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene iii]:
      This is hire andsalary, not revenge.
    • 1668 July 3rd,James Dalrymple, “Thomas Ruecontra Andrew Houſtoun” inThe Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683),page 547
      Andrew Houſtoun andAdam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did ImployThomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him aSallary of 30. poundSterling for a year.
    • 1935,Upton Sinclair, chapter XX, inI, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked,page109:
      I used to say to our audiences: “It is difficult to get a man understand something, when hissalary depends upon his not understanding it!”

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fixed amount of money paid on monthly or annual basis

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Verb

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salary (third-person singular simple presentsalaries,present participlesalarying,simple past and past participlesalaried)

  1. To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form ofcompensation.

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salary (comparativemoresalary,superlativemostsalary)

  1. (obsolete)Saline.

References

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  1. ^Gainsford, Peter (2017 January 11 (last accessed)) “Salt and salary: were Roman soldiers paid in salt?”, inKiwi Hellenist: Modern Myths about the Ancient World

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