salsa
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish salsa (“sauce”), from Latin salsus (“salted”), whence also the doublet sauce (via Old French).
Pronunciation
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Noun
salsa (countable and uncountable, plural salsas)
- (countable) A spicy tomato sauce, often including onions and hot peppers.
- 1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times[1]:
- Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs – topped with every imaginable condiment – hot mustard, sweet mustard, jalapenos, spaghetti sauce, regular relish, corn relish, maple syrup salsa and the secret sauce of Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.). ("If I told you the recipe," an aide explained, "I'd have to shoot you.")
- (uncountable, music) A style of urban music originally from New York heavily influenced by Cuban dance music, jazz and rock.
- (countable, dance) Any of several dances performed to salsa music.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
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References
- 2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 336.
Verb
salsa (third-person singular simple present salsas, present participle salsaing, simple past and past participle salsaed)
- (intransitive) To dance the salsa.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:etymology at line 156: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from saliō, from sal.
Pronunciation
Noun
salsa f (plural salses)
Further reading
- “salsa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “salsa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “salsa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “salsa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Cebuano
Etymology
From English salsa. Doublet of sarsa.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sal‧sa
Noun
salsa
- salsa; a spicy tomato sauce
- salsa music
- any of several dances performed to salsa music
Czech
Noun
salsa f
- salsa (dance)
Further reading
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English salsa, from Spanish salsa, from Latin salsus.
Noun
salsa m (plural salsa's)
- salsa (dance)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Spanish salsa, from Latin salsus.
Noun
salsa m (plural salsa's)
- salsa (spicy tomato sauce)
Related terms
Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
salsa
Declension
Inflection of salsa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | salsa | salsat | ||
genitive | salsan | salsojen | ||
partitive | salsaa | salsoja | ||
illative | salsaan | salsoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | salsa | salsat | ||
accusative | nom. | salsa | salsat | |
gen. | salsan | |||
genitive | salsan | salsojen salsain rare | ||
partitive | salsaa | salsoja | ||
inessive | salsassa | salsoissa | ||
elative | salsasta | salsoista | ||
illative | salsaan | salsoihin | ||
adessive | salsalla | salsoilla | ||
ablative | salsalta | salsoilta | ||
allative | salsalle | salsoille | ||
essive | salsana | salsoina | ||
translative | salsaksi | salsoiksi | ||
abessive | salsatta | salsoitta | ||
instructive | — | salsoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
- (sauce): salsakastike
Italian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from saliō, from sal.
Pronunciation
Noun
salsa f (plural salse)
Related terms
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) salsa
- nominative feminine singular of salsus
- nominative neuter plural of salsus
- accusative neuter plural of salsus
- vocative feminine singular of salsus
- vocative neuter plural of salsus
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) salsā
References
- salsa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Portuguese
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Parsley_Flat.jpg/220px-Parsley_Flat.jpg)
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: sal‧sa
Etymology 1
From Latin salsa herba (“salted herb”).
Noun
salsa f (plural s)
- parsley (Petroselinum crispum, a herb)
Synonyms
Derived terms
- salsa-americana
- salsa-ardente
- salsa-branca
- salsa-brava
- salsa-crespa
- salsa-da-praia
- salsa-de-água
- salsa-de-burro
- salsa-de-castanheiro
- salsa-de-cavalos
- salsa-de-cheiro
- salsa-de-cupim
- salsa-do-brejo
- salsa-do-campo
- salsa-do-mato
- salsa-do-monte
- salsa-do-rio-grande-do-sul
- salsa-do-rio-novo
- salsa-dos-cavalos
- salsa-dos-pântanos
- salsa-gorda
- salsa-leitosa
- salsa-moura
Etymology 2
Noun
salsa f (uncountable)
Spanish
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from saliō, from sal.
Pronunciation
Noun
salsa f (plural salsas)
- sauce, gravy (liquid condiment)
- salsa (spicy tomato sauce)
- salsa (style of music)
- salsa (dance performed to salsa music)
Derived terms
- en su salsa, en su propia salsa
- salsa alfredo
- salsa balandra
- salsa bearnesa
- salsa blanca
- salsa bordelesa
- salsa brava
- salsa cazadora
- salsa criolla
- salsa de menta
- salsa de tomate
- salsa española
- salsa holandesa
- salsa marinara
- salsa mayordoma
- salsa mil islas
- salsa ravigote
- salsa rosa
- salsa rubia
- salsa siciliana
- salsa suprema
- salsa tártara
- salsa verde
- salsa vinagreta
- salsear
- salsera
- salsereta
- salserilla
- salsero
- salserón
- salseruela
- vale más la salsa que los perdigones
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “salsa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- en:Music
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- ceb:Music
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- fi:Music
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- fi:Foods
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- it:Dances
- it:Foods
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- pt:Musical genres
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- pt:Herbs
- pt:Celery family plants
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