salarium

Latin edit

Etymology edit

Substantivisation of salārius (“of or pertaining to salt”).

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /saˈlaː.ri.um/, [s̠äˈɫ̪äːriʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /saˈla.ri.um/, [säˈläːrium]

Noun edit

salārium n (genitive salāriī or salārī); second declension

a salary, stipend, allowance, pension; originally money given to soldiers with which to buy salt
a meal

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	salārium	salāria
Genitive	salāriī salārī¹	salāriōrum
Dative	salāriō	salāriīs
Accusative	salārium	salāria
Ablative	salāriō	salāriīs
Vocative	salārium	salāria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants edit

→ Catalan: salari
→ Dutch: salaris
→ English: salary
→ French: salaire
→ Italian: salario
→ Portuguese: salário
→ Romanian: salariu
→ Spanish: salario

References edit

“salarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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