salarium

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

salārium n (genitive salāriī or salārī); second declension

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

Declension

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

• 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