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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