salarium

Latin

Etymology

Nominalization of salārius (“of or pertaining to salt”). See English salary for commentary on the shift in meaning.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [saˈɫaː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [saˈlaː.ri.um]

Noun

salārium n (genitive salāriī or salārī); second declension

1. a salary, stipend, allowance, pension
2. a meal

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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

• → Catalan: salari
• → Dutch: salaris
• → Italian: salario
• → Old French: salaire
  • → English: salary
  • Middle French: salaire
    • French: salaire
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: salário, salairo, salayro, selario, solairo
  • Fala: salario
  • Galician: salario
  • Portuguese: salário
• → Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: salario
• → Romanian: salariu

References

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

Polish

Alternative forms

• salaryjum, solaryjum (Middle Polish)
• salarjum (pre-reform orthography (1936))

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin salārium.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /saˈla.rjum/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /saˈla.rjum/

• Rhymes: -arjum
• Syllabification: sa‧la‧rium

Noun

salarium n (related adjective salaryjny)

1. (obsolete) synonym of wynagrodzenie (“salary”)

Declension

Declension of salarium

	singular	plural
nominative	salarium	salaria
genitive	salarium	salariów
dative	salarium	salariom
accusative	salarium	salaria
instrumental	salarium	salariami
locative	salarium	salariach
vocative	salarium	salaria

Related terms

nouns

• salariat

Further reading

• “salarium”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “salarium”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “salarium”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 10