2022-10-14 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด H -– Honorarium & remuneration

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Dictionary.com 

ออกเสียง Honorarium = ‘on-uh-RAIR-ee-uhm’ 

ออกเสียง Remuneration = ‘ri-myoo-nuh-REY-shuhn 

 

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression 

Honorarium 

This word is occasionally used to refer to  

a fee (payment) for service rendered  

by an eminent or professional person. 

An honorarium is considered a reward  

for some act for which custom or tact  

forbids the setting of a fixed amount, or fee: 

“The ambassador received a small honorarium for speaking at our meeting.” 

The word is a kind of euphemism for fee; 

an honorarium is not considered a recognition in money 

so much as a token of the honor conferred by  

the presence of the person rendering the service. 

 

Dictionary.com 

VOCAB BUILDER 

What does honorarium mean? 

An honorarium is a payment for special, professional services 

that don’t technically require compensation 

or for which payment isn’t customarily given. 

 

An honorarium is usually given as an appreciative gesture for services 

outside of one’s normal job—it’s not a salary. 

 

More generally,  

it can refer to a one-time fee paid to a professional for their services. 

The correct plural of honorarium can be  

either honorariums or honoraria. 

Technically speaking,  

honoraria is the Latin-based plural form of honorarium. 

(Many other Latin-derived words can be pluralized in the same way,  

but many are rarely used, such as stadia as the plural for stadium.) 

 

Example:  

I was paid a modest honorarium for the summer poetry workshop that I led. 

 

Dictionary.com 

Where does honorarium come from? 

The first records of honorarium come from the 1600s.  

The word comes from the Latin honōrārium,  

meaning “fee paid on taking office.”  

In Latin, honōrārium is the noun form  

of the adjective honōrārius, meaning “honorary.” 

 

Should you ever be invited to be a speaker at a conference,  

you might receive an honorarium.  

It’s kind of like a gift for your time and expertise.  

 

Such payments are sometimes referred to as ex gratia 

—meaning they’re given as a gift rather than  

as a formal, required payment.  

 

An honorarium isn’t a freelance payment  

or a salary (though it is usually considered taxable income).  

 

An honorarium is also different than a stipend  

(a periodic payment)  

or a per diem (a daily allowance to cover expenses),  

though it could be used to cover the expenses of traveling  

to speak at a conference, for example.  

(Our advice? When you do work or offer your expertise,  

require payment, regardless of what the payment is called.) 

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary 

Did You Know? 

Our evidence shows  

remuneration to be most at home in writing  

that concerns financial matters,  

especially when large amounts of money 

-or other forms of compensation-are involved. 

 

Whether it's because money denotes numerals,  

or simply because  

the "n" and "m" are adjacent to each other on our keyboards, 

 

"reMUNeration" appears misspelled as "reNUMeration"  

to a rather inordinate degree in an electronic database of published periodicals. 

(Renumeration, a very rare word,  

means "to enumerate [to count or list] again.") 

It pays to know that  

the "-mun-" in remuneration is from Latin munus, meaning "gift," 

 

a root it shares with munificent,  

an adjective which means "very liberal in giving." 

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary 

Remuneration 

Did you know? 

Our evidence shows  

remuneration to be most at home in writing  

that concerns financial matters,  

especially when large amounts of money 

—or other forms of compensation—are involved.  

 

Whether it's because money is often expressed in numerals,  

or simply because the "n" and "m" are adjacent  

to each other on our keyboards,  

"reMUNeration" often appears misspelled as "reNUMeration." (Renumeration, a very rare word,  

means "the act of enumerating [counting or listing] again.")  

It pays to know that the -mun- in remuneration  

is from Latin munus, meaning "gift,"  

a root it shares with munificent,  

an adjective which means "very liberal in giving."