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).

	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

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