salarium

This blog post does not dispute the broad consensus that salarium comes from sal and that salarium was used to designate salary or emolument.

Similarly, in Rome, grain allowances were a common thing; it could easily make sense to interpret salarium as ‘everything-else-money’.

I used the Salarium [0] for base comparison (unfortunately, the actual calculator is only available in German/French/Italian).

The collected data is then published in the Salarium [1].

We use the word salario (from latin salarium) which has the same meaning as in latin: words ending in -ario (lat: -arium) is used to denote association, like in templario (templar) or revolucionario (revolutionary).

We can trace the gloss "salt money" for salarium all the way back to...

[1] "Salary" derives from salarium, the wage paid to a Roman soldier in order to buy salt (among other things).

It's worth noting here that the glosses, "(wit)" and "(salt money)", are interpolations by the translator; Pliny doesn't gloss salarium at all.

Even in the very honours, too, that are bestowed upon successful warfare, salt plays its part, and from it, our word "salarium" is derived.

"Salarium Argentum" - salt money (or money/allowance towards salt) It would be funny to see my payslip with a tex deductable section saying "Salt allowance".

We can trace the gloss "salt money" for salarium all the way back to...

[1] "Salary" derives from salarium, the wage paid to a Roman soldier in order to buy salt (among other things).

It's worth noting here that the glosses, "(wit)" and "(salt money)", are interpolations by the translator; Pliny doesn't gloss salarium at all.

Even in the very honours, too, that are bestowed upon successful warfare, salt plays its part, and from it, our word "salarium" is derived.