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Salary goes back to the Latin word that originally denoted a 'allowance given to a Roman soldier for buying salt' This was 'Salarium,' a derivative of sal, 'salt.' Salt being in former times a valued commodity over which wars were fought, rather that taken for granted as it is today. It soon broadened out to mean 'fixed periodic payment for work done,' and passed in this sense via Anglo-Norman salarie into English. Source: Dictionary of Word Origins, John Ayto
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∙ 12y agoRoman soldiers received part of their pay in salt (you need it for food, and before rapid transport, people away from the oceans paid rather steeply for salt.) Your wages, or salary, has the same latin root as salt. Sal.
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∙ 8y agoRoman soldiers were originally paid with salt, according to Pliny the Elder, and the Latin for "salt" is "Salis".
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