salārium is morphologically related to salārius “pertaining to salt,” from sāl.
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salārium
official payment or allowance
OPEN NODE 17 ↗DESCENDS FROM→
PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedLatin · antiquitysāl
salt
OPEN NODE 18 ↗01
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The precise bridge from salt to official compensation is not preserved.
No separate chronology note is attached beyond the endpoint date ranges.
Latin lexicography · Pliny
established — Morphology is secure; the historical motivation is not.
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Salary — Word HistoryEtymology note
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Explicitly rejects the soldiers-paid-in-salt story.
Logeion: salariumsalarium
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Latin lexical evidence.
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