Other forms: salaries
A salary is the fixed money you receive from your company every month. Ask about the salary.
It is paid whatever hours you work, which is the difference from a wage. A salary is quoted for a year and arrives in twelve pieces, which hides what an extra month would be worth.
1nounsalaryThe fixed money you receive from your company every month.
“The salary was the same in December as in June.”
salary is money.
Also accepted in games: pay
SALary → SALt money
Soldiers were once given money to buy salt with, and the money kept the name long after the salt had been forgotten.
hooks ontosalt
Latin sal meant salt, and salt was worth money. A Roman soldier drew a salarium — an allowance to buy it. The allowance outlived the salt, and became the word for being paid at all.
Latin
salārium — wages
Old French
salaire
Anglo-Norman
salarie
Middle English
salarie
English, today
salary
Built from
From Middle English salarie, from Anglo-Norman salarie, from Old French salaire, from Latin salārium (“wages”), the neuter form of the adjective salārius (“related to salt”), from sal (“salt”). There have been various attempts to explain how the Latin term for “wages” came from the adjective “related to salt”. It is generally assumed that salārium was an abbreviation of salārium argentum (“salt money”), though that phrase is not attested. A commonly cited theory states that the phrase meant “money consisting of salt”, because, supposedly, Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, but there is no evidence for either of these claims from ancient sources. Another is that the phrase meant “money used to buy salt [and other miscellaneous items]”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA