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The word "salary" comes from the Latin word for salt. The persistent modern claim that the Roman Legions were sometimes paid in salt [1] [9] is baseless; a salārium may have been an allowance paid to Roman soldiers for the purchase of salt, but even that is not well established. [10] [11]
Salzach means "salt river" while Salzburg means "salt castle", both taking their names from the German word Salz, salt. Hallstatt was the site of the world's first salt mine . [ 26 ] The town gave its name to the Hallstatt culture that began mining for salt in the area in about 800 BC.
The Via Salaria owes its name to the Latin word for "salt", since it was the route by which the Sabines living nearer the Tyrrhenian Sea came to fetch salt from the marshes at the mouth of the river Tiber, the Campus Salinarum (near Portus). [1] Peoples nearer the Adriatic Sea used it to fetch it from production sites there. [2]
The word salt cellar is attested in English from the 15th century. It combines the English word salt with the Anglo-Norman word saler (from Latin sāl), which already by itself meant "salt container". [3] Salt cellars are known, in various forms, by assorted names including open salt, salt dip, standing salt, master salt, and salt dish.
Modern sources maintain that although Roman soldiers were typically paid in coin, the word salarium is derived from the word sal (salt) because at some point a soldier's salary may have been an allowance for the purchase of salt [4] or the price of having soldiers conquer salt supplies and guard the Salt Roads (Via Salaria) that led to Rome.
The UK’s grit has a surprising origin. Here, as deep as 40 feet below the ground in Winsford mine, is a massive slab of rock salt that has been serving the country’s needs since 1844.
The Latin word sal (salis is the genitive) means both "salt" and "wit", thus the Latin phrase cum grano salis could be translated to either "with a grain of salt" or "with a grain of wit", actually to "with caution"/cautiously. [3] The phrase is typically said "with a pinch of salt" in British English and said "with a grain of salt" in American ...
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