emolument: [15] Just as a salary was originally a ‘payment for salt’, so emolument appears to have been a particular kind of payment – in this case for flour – which later became generalized in meaning. Latin ēmolere meant ‘grind out’ (it was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and molere ‘grind’, a relative of English mill and meal ‘ground grain’), and hence the derivative ēmolumentum was used originally for ‘fee paid to a miller for grinding grain’. The metaphorical sense ‘gain’ was already present in classical Latin. => meal, mill
emolument (n.)
mid-15c., from Old French émolument "advantage, gain, benefit; income, revenue" (13c.) and directly from Latin emolumentum "profit, gain, advantage, benefit," perhaps originally "payment to a miller for grinding corn," from emolere "grind out," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + molere "to grind" (see mallet).
雙語例句
1. The emolument of this profession is not satisfactory.
此行業的報酬不令人滿意。
來自辭典例句
2. He plied his new profession with emolument to himself, and infinite plague to the country.
他干這新行肥了自己, 對國家卻是貽患無窮.
來自辭典例句
3. Typically, coating paper Toner low emolument and making quality and low.
通常, 涂層紙的墨粉定影強度較低且制卡質量低.
來自互聯網
4. He was paid a modest emolument.
他獲酬甚微.
來自互聯網
5. Baby - linen - for babies then wore robes of state - afforded another possibility of toil and emolument.