salarium
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Substantivisation of salārius (“of or pertaining to salt”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /saˈlaː.ri.um/, [s̠äˈɫ̪äːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /saˈla.ri.um/, [säˈläːrium]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | 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[edit]
References[edit]
- “salarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press