英语词汇emolument的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	emolument
词源	emolument. This fancy word for salary or reward comes from Latin molere, to grind, the emolument (in the form of the Latin emolumentum) originally being the payment a miller got for grinding corn. Molere also gives us the word for grinding our molar teeth.
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