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NODE / 0017attestedLatin

salārium

official payment or allowance

DATE
Roman imperial period
SENSE
default
FAMILY
Indo-European / Italic
CANONICAL KEY
node:9:salarium:attested
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ANCESTRAL EDGES

ROOT OF THIS ROOT

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GO DEEPERderivationestablished
Latin · antiquity

sāl

salt

SOUND
salārium is morphologically related to salārius “pertaining to salt,” from sāl.
MEANING
The precise bridge from salt to official compensation is not preserved.
SCHOLAR
Latin lexicography · Pliny
CONFIDENCE
established — Morphology is secure; the historical motivation is not.
Salary — Word HistorysupportsEtymology note

Explicitly rejects the soldiers-paid-in-salt story.

ORIGINAL ↗
Logeion: salariumsupportssalarium

Latin lexical evidence.

ORIGINAL ↗
OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 15 ↗
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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

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TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE

EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE

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UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
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REVIEWED EDGES
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DEEPEST PATH
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MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
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salary2 connected nodes
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE

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RECORDED EVIDENCE

ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE

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SOURCE-REPORTEDlexical corpus recordestablished

Latin literary and epigraphic record

The date and form are source-reported. No manuscript or inscription facsimile has been directly inspected for this record.

salary dossier · recorded as salārium
WITNESS RECORD ↗Logeion: salarium ↗
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EDITORIAL REUSE

WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE

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03salarysalārium · established