different between livelihood vs salary

English

Alternative forms

• livelod
• lyuelode [12th-17th c.]
• lyvelod [14th-17th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English liflode, from Old English l?fl?d (“course of life, conduct”), from l?f (“life”) +? l?d (“course, journey”), later altered under the influence of lively, -hood. Compare life, lode.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?la?vl?h?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?la?vlih?d/

Noun

livelihood (countable and uncountable, plural livelihoods)

1. A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself (for example, a job or income). [from 14^thc.]

   Synonyms: living, subsistence, sustenance

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.4:

     But now, when Philtra saw my lands decay / And former livelod fayle, she left me quight […].

   • 1694, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennet, Sermon 2, p. 293,^[1]

     […] a Man may as easily know where to find one, to teach him to Debauch, Whore, Game, and Blaspheme, as to teach him to Write, or Cast Accompt: ’Tis their Support, and Business; nay, their very Profession, and Livelihood; getting their Living by those Practices, for which they deserve to forfeit their Lives.

   • 1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, No. 42, Monday May 14, p. 245,^[2]

     Trade […] employs Multitudes of Hands both by Sea and Land, and furnishes the poorest of our Fellow-Subjects with the Opportunities of gaining an honest Livelihood.

   • 1865, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 1,^[3]

     And now he’s dead, and left her a widow, and she is staying here; and we are racking our brains to find out some way of helping her to a livelihood without parting her from her child.

   • 1967, Chaim Potok, The Chosen, New York: Fawcett Crest, 1982, Chapter 1, p. 10,^[4]

     [The Orthodox Jewish shopkeepers] could be seen behind their counters, wearing black skullcaps, full beards, and long earlocks, eking out their meager livelihoods and dreaming of Shabbat and festivals when they could close their stores and turn their attention to their prayers, their rabbi, their God.

   • 2013, Matthew Claughton, The Guardian, (letter), 25 April:

     The legal profession believes that client choice is the best way of ensuring standards remain high, because a lawyer's livelihood depends upon their reputation.

2. (now rare) Property which brings in an income; an estate. [from 15^thc.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts V:

     Then sayde Peter: Ananias how is it that satan hath fillen thyne hert, thatt thou shuldest lye unto the holy goost, and kepe awaye parte off the pryce off thy lyvelod […]?

3. (obsolete) Liveliness; appearance of life.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene 1,^[5]

     […] the tyranny of her sorrows takes all livelihood from her cheek.

4. (obsolete) The course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour. [10^th-17^thc.]

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• sallary (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English salarie, from Anglo-Norman salarie, from Old French salaire, from Latin sal?rium (“wages”), the neuter form of the adjective sal?rius (“related to salt”), from sal (“salt”). There have been various attempts to explain how the Latin term for “wages” came from the adjective “related to salt”. It is generally assumed that sal?rium was an abbreviation of sal?rium argentum (“salt money”), though that phrase is not attested. A commonly cited theory is that the phrase meant “money consisting of salt”, because Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, but there is no evidence for this from ancient sources. Another is that the phrase meant “money used to buy salt [and other miscellaneous items]”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæl?i/
• Homophone: celery (in some dialects)

Noun

salary (plural salaries)

1. A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
   • 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547

     Andrew Hou?toun and Adam Mu?het, being Tack?men of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (sarar?)

Translations

See also

• pay
• remuneration
• wage
• wages

Verb

salary (third-person singular simple present salaries, present participle salarying, simple past and past participle salaried)

1. To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.

Translations

Adjective

salary (comparative more salary, superlative most salary)

1. (obsolete) Saline.

References

Further reading

• salary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia