salarium

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /saˈlaː.ri.um/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /saˈla.ri.um/,

Noun

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

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
→ 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

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