salsa

Borrowed from Spanish salsa (“sauce”), from Latin salsus (“salted”), whence also the doublet sauce (via Old French).

• (US) enPR: sälʹsə, IPA^(key): /ˈsɑl.sə/

salsa (countable and uncountable, plural salsas)

1. (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.")

2. (uncountable, music) A style of urban music originally from New York heavily influenced by Cuban dance music, jazz and rock.
3. (countable, dance) Any of several dances performed to salsa music.

• salsa-like
• salsa sauce

2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 336.

salsa (third-person singular simple present salsas, present participle salsaing, simple past and past participle salsaed)

1. (intransitive) To dance the salsa.

• Salas, salas

From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from saliō, from sal.

salsa f (plural salses)

1. sauce
2. salsa (music)
3. salsa (dance)

From English salsa. Doublet of sarsa.

• Hyphenation: sal‧sa

salsa

1. salsa; a spicy tomato sauce
2. salsa music
3. any of several dances performed to salsa music

salsa f

1. salsa (dance)

• salsa in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑlsɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑls̠ɑ]
• Hyphenation: sal‧sa

salsa

1. salsa (sauce)
2. (music) salsa
3. (dance) salsa

• (sauce): salsakastike

From Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from saliō, from sal.

salsa f (plural salse)

1. sauce

• salso
• salare
• sale

• lassa

salsa

1. nominative feminine singular of salsus
2. nominative neuter plural of salsus
3. accusative neuter plural of salsus
4. vocative feminine singular of salsus
5. vocative neuter plural of salsus

salsā

1. ablative feminine singular of salsus

• salsa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɫ.sɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaw.sɐ/
• Hyphenation: sal‧sa

From Latin salsa herba (“salted herb”).

salsa f (plural salsas)

1. parsley (Petroselinum crispum, a herb)

• perrexil, salsinha

Borrowed from Spanish salsa.

salsa f (uncountable)

1. (music, dance genre) salsa (a music and dance genre influenced by Cuban music, jazz and rock)

From Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from saliō, from sal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalsa/

salsa f (plural salsas)

1. sauce, gravy (liquid condiment)
2. salsa (spicy tomato sauce)
3. salsa (style of music)
4. salsa (dance performed to salsa music)

• 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

• sal
• salar
• salso

• “salsa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.