salaryとは

語源

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 is that the phrase meant “money consisting of salt”, because Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, but there is no evidence for this from ancient sources. Another is that the phrase meant “money used to buy salt [and other miscellaneous items]”.^[1]

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈsælɚi/
• Homophone: celery (in some dialects)

名詞

salary (複数形 salaries)

1. A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
   • Shakespeare

     This is hire and salary, not revenge.

   • 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547

     Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.

参考

• pay
• remuneration
• wage
• wages

動詞

salary (三人称単数 現在形 salaries, 現在分詞 salarying, 過去形および過去分詞形 salaried)

1. To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.

形容詞

salary (comparative more salary, superlative most salary)

1. (obsolete) Saline.

参照

Further reading

• salary on Wikipedia.