Nominalization of salārius (“of or pertaining to salt”). See English salary for commentary on the shift in meaning.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [saˈɫaː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [saˈlaː.ri.um]

salārium n (genitive salāriī or salārī); second declension

1. a salary, stipend, allowance, pension
2. a meal

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “salarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• salaryjum, solaryjum (Middle Polish)
• salarjum (pre-reform orthography (1936))

Learned borrowing from Latin salārium.

• Rhymes: -arjum
• Syllabification: sa‧la‧rium

salarium n (related adjective salaryjny)

1. (obsolete) synonym of wynagrodzenie (“salary”)

• salarium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• salarium in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “salarium”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 10