salary
pronunciation
How to pronounce salary in British English:
UK [ˈsæləri]
How to pronounce salary in American English:
US [ˈsæləri]
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- Noun:
- something that remunerates
Word Origin
- salary
- salary: [14] Salary goes back to a Latin word that originally denoted an ‘allowance given to Roman soldiers for buying salt’ (salt being in former times a valued commodity, over which wars were fought, rather than taken for granted as it is today). This was salārium, a derivative of sāl ‘salt’. It soon broadened out to mean ‘fixed periodic payment for work done’, and passed in this sense via Anglo-Norman salarie into English.=> salt
- salary (n.)
- late 13c., "compensation, payment," whether periodical, for regular service or for a specific service; from Anglo-French salarie, Old French salaire "wages, pay, reward," from Latin salarium "salary, stipend, pension," originally "salt-money, soldier's allowance for the purchase of salt," noun use of neuter of adjective salarius "pertaining to salt," from sal (genitive salis) "salt" (see salt (n.)). Japanese sarariman "male salaried worker," literally "salary-man," is from English.
- salary (v.)
- "to pay a regular salary to," late 15c., from salary (n.). Related: Salaried, which as an adjective in reference to positions originally was contrasted with honorary; lately with hourly.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Two work stoppages led to a six-day salary deduction .
- 2. Mr murphy has called for executive salary caps .
- 3. My annual salary over that time will average about 45000 .
- 4. Salary differences between countries can lead to resentment .
- 5. In fact , private wage and salary income fell in june .