Where does “salary” come from?
Salary comes from Middle English salarie, from Anglo-Norman salarie, from Old French salaire, from Latin salarium meaning an allowance of salt or salt money, derived from sal meaning salt with the suffix -arius, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European seh₂l- meaning salt.
salary (English): A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually...
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- A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually...
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