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Logeion: salarium
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Classics Department Editors
- YEAR
- Not recorded
- PUBLISHER
- University of Chicago
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- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- lexical database
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What was the original salt connection?
Unknown. A salt allowance, purchase money, and euphemistic honorarium have all been proposed without decisive evidence.
salariumSupplies the attested Latin payment word without resolving its historical motivation.
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salārium → sāl
Latin → Latin · derivation
- 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 / EDITOR
- Latin lexicography · Pliny
salariumLatin lexical evidence.
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salārium
Latin literary and epigraphic record
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Roman world
Records salārium as an attested Latin lexical item for the Roman stage. The entry supports the word, not payment in literal salt.
s.v. salārium · regionalNON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
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