*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 10

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 02regionalMAPPABLE REGION

imperial period

Roman world

salary DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

Latin salārium denotes official pay and is morphologically connected with salt. The sources do not say Roman soldiers received ordinary wages in literal salt.

COORDINATES STORED
YES
HONEST TO PLOT
YES
PLACEMENT MODE
regional
TIME PRECISION
unresolved
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
WITHHELD
CLAIM CITATIONS
2
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

NO YEAR HAS BEEN INVENTED.

The Roman lexical stage is directly cited, but the current sources do not define a conservative numeric interval for the route.

DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. supports

    Salary — Word History

    Derives Latin salārium “official pay” through salārius from sāl “salt” while explaining that the familiar soldiers-paid-in-salt story has no ancient-source basis.

    Word History: Etymology and NoteAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. supports

    Logeion: salarium

    Records salārium as an attested Latin lexical item for the Roman stage. The entry supports the word, not payment in literal salt.

    s.v. salāriumAUDIT SOURCE ↗