emolument

英[?'m?lj?m(?)nt;e-]

反義詞

復數:?emoluments;

emolument 酬金

e-, 向外。-mol, 磨，軟，詞源同mill,melt. 即磨出來應得的，原指付給磨米工或磨面工的勞動報酬。

emolument: 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).

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.

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.

5. Baby - linen - for babies then wore robes of state - afforded another possibility of toil and emolument.: 而嬰兒的服裝 —— 當時的嬰兒是穿袍服的 —— 也為她提供了依靠勞動獲得收入的機會.