salarium Latin · revision 667

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [saˈɫaː.ri.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [saˈlaː.ri.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''salārium''' ''n'' (genitive salāriī or salārī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the neuter of the adjective [[salarius|alt=salārius]] “of salt”, used as a noun, from [[sal]] “salt”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) Lewis and Short and Gaffiot explain it as originally an allowance of salt or money for buying salt given to soldiers, an explanation Etymonline reports with caution.^(Etymonline)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It first appears in the 1st century AD, in Pliny the Elder,^(Köbler 2010) who connects it with salt.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a regular official payment to the holder of a civil or military post, a salary, and Seneca, Tacitus and Pliny the Younger use it for allowances and stipends.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Wiktionary also records the sense of a meal.^(Wiktionary)

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+ In medieval Latin it took up other senses connected with salt, such as a salt cellar, salt works and a toll on salt, and also meant a food supply, provisions, a prebend and a charter.^(Niermeyer 1976) Through Old French ''salaire'' it gave [[en|salary]] in the late 13th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it and links it with salt.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it for a stipend.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus mentions the salary of a proconsul.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Middle Ages – It means a toll on salt, provisions and a prebend.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ * late 13th century – Through French it gives [[en|salary]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A regular official payment, a [[m|en|salary]], stipend.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A salt cellar; salt works; a toll on salt.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Provisions; a prebend; a charter.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[salāriārius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sal]]

+ * [[en|salary]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}