salsa
English
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Green and red salsa (spicy tomato sauce).
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Salsa dancers dancing salsa.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish salsa (“sauce”), from Latin salsus (“salted”), whence also the doublet sauce (via Old French).
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: sälʹsə, IPA(key): /ˈsɑl.sə/
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:
- 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.")
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- (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
Translations
spicy tomato sauce
style of music
References
2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 336.
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from saliō, from sal.
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sal‧sa
Czech
Finnish
(index sa)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɑlsɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑls̠ɑ]
- Hyphenation: sal‧sa
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 salsainrare | |
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 | |
instructive | — | salsoin | |
abessive | salsatta | salsoitta | |
comitative | — | salsoineen |
Synonyms
- (sauce): salsakastike
Italian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from saliō, from sal.
Latin
Adjective
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
salsā
- ablative feminine singular of salsus
References
- salsa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Portuguese
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salsa
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
Spanish
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from saliō, from sal.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsalsa/
Noun
salsa f (plural salsas)
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
Further reading
- “salsa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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