salary – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to salary
Participle: salaried
Gerund: salarying

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	salary
we	Let's salary
you	salary

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

From Middle English salarie, from Anglo-Norman salarie, from Old French salaire, from Latin salārium (“wages”), the neuter form of the adjective salārius (“related to salt”), from sal (“salt”). There have been various attempts to explain how the Latin term for “wages” came from the adjective “related to salt”. It is generally assumed that salārium was an abbreviation of salārium argentum (“salt money”), though that phrase is not attested. A commonly cited theory states that the phrase meant “money consisting of salt”, because, supposedly, Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, but there is no evidence for either of these claims from ancient sources. Another is that the phrase meant “money used to buy salt [and other miscellaneous items]”.

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