different between salary vs profit

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English profit, from Old French profit (Modern French profit), from Latin pr?fectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”), from profici? (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?f?it, IPA^(key): /?p??f?t/
• (General American) enPR: pr?f?it, IPA^(key): /?p??f?t/
• Homophone: prophet
• Rhymes: -?f?t
• Hyphenation: prof?it

Noun

profit (countable and uncountable, plural profits)

1. (accounting, economics) Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
   • October 2, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

     Let no man anticipate uncertain profits.
2. (dated, literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), 1 Corinthians vii. 35

     This I speak for your own profit.
3. (law) In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game).

Usage notes

Regarding the income sense, when the difference is negative, the term loss is preferred. Negative profit does appear in microeconomics.Profit by a government agency is called a surplus.

Synonyms

• gain

Antonyms

• loss

Derived terms

• for-profit
• non-profit

Translations

Verb

profit (third-person singular simple present profits, present participle profiting, simple past and past participle profited)

1. (transitive) To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).

   • The word preached did not profit them.

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently those excellent pieces and beautiful designs.

2. (intransitive, construed with from) To benefit, gain.
3. (intransitive, construed with from) To take advantage of, exploit, use.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• proficiency
• proficient

Further reading

• profit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• profit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• forpit

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin pr?fectus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /p?u?fit/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /p?o?fit/

Noun

profit m (plural profits)

1. benefit, advantage

Derived terms

• aprofitar
• bon profit
• profitós

Further reading

• “profit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “profit” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “profit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “profit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Old French profit, from Latin pr?fectus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.fi/

Noun

profit m (plural profits)

1. profit, benefit

Derived terms

Further reading

• “profit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Profit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?profit]
• Hyphenation: pro?fit
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

profit (plural profitok)

1. profit (total income or cash flow minus expenditures)

   Synonyms: haszon, nyereség

Declension

References

Further reading

• profit in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norman

Etymology

From Old French profit, from Latin profectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”).

Noun

profit m (plural profits)

1. (Jersey) profit

Romanian

Etymology

From French profit.

Noun

profit n (plural profituri)

1. profit

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr?fi?t/
• Hyphenation: pro?fit

Noun

pròf?t m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. profit

Declension

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English profit.

Noun

profit

1. profit
2. interest