Category: Weird Etymologies

Salary- Salary comes from the Latin word meaning salt, sal, due to how valuable salt was in Roman times. Soldiers in Rome’s army were allotted an allowance to buy salt, essential for preserving food. Defenestration- Defenestrate means to throw someone out a window. In Latin, fenestram means window, and the prefix de- means down from, so to defenestrate…Continue Reading More etymologies to ponder