salarium

Contents

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /saˈlaː.ri.um/, [saˈɫaː.ri.ũː]

Noun

salārium n (genitive salāriī); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension.

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

Descendants

• Catalan: salari
• Dutch: salaris
• English: salary
• French: salaire

• Italian: salario
• Portuguese: salário
• Romanian: salariu
• Spanish: salario

References

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