Salary
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Etymology
From Latin salarium, salt money, money to buy salt with, from sal, salt
Pronunciation
Homophones
- celery (depends on dialect)
Noun
salary, plural salaries
- A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually measured on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly; as opposed to wages]. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
Translations
- Chinese: 薪金
- Dutch: salaris n
- Finnish: palkka
- French: salaire m
- German: Gehalt n
- Greek: μισθός m
- Hebrew: משכורת, שכר
- Interlingua: salario
- Italian: stipendio m
- Japanese: サラリー
- Korean: 급료
- Latin: salarium n
- Portuguese: salário m
- Romanian: salariu n
- Russian: зарплата f (zarplata)
- Slovak: plat m
- Spanish: sueldo m
See Also
- Remuneration
- wage
- Wages
