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).
例文
1. The emolument of this profession is not satisfactory.
この業界の報酬は好ましくありません。
2.He plied his new profession with emolument to himself,and infinite plague to the country.
彼はこの新しい行をやって自分を肥やしたが、国には限りがない。
3.Typically，coating paper Toner low emolument and Making quality and low.
通常、コーティング紙のトナー定着強度は低く、カード製造品質は低い。
4.He was paid a modest emolument .
彼は報酬が少ない。
5.Baby-linen-for babies then wore robes of state-afforded another possibility of toil and emolument .