Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Salary

Salary , adjective

[Latin salarius.]

Saline [Obsolete]

Salary , noun

[French salaire, Latin salarium, originally, salt money, the money given to the Roman soldiers for salt, which was a part of their pay, from salarius belonging to salt, from sal salt. See Salt.]

The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.
This is hire and salary, not revenge. — Shakespeare

Recompense for services paid at, or reckoned by, short intervals, as a day or week, is usually called wages.

Salary , transitive verb

To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.