English

Green and red salsa (spicy tomato sauce).

Salsa dancers dancing salsa.

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• salsa-like

References

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

Translations

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To dance the salsa.

Catalan

Noun

salsa f ‎(plural salses)

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

Finnish

(index sa)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sal‧sa

Noun

salsa

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

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus ‘salted’, past participle of sallere ‎(“to salt”), from sal.

Noun

salsa f ‎(plural salse)

1. sauce

Anagrams

• lassa

Latin

Adjective

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

References

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

Portuguese

salsa

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Latin salsa herba ‎(“salted herb”).

Noun

salsa f (plural salsas)

1. parsley (Petroselinum crispum, a herb)

Synonyms

• perrexil, salsinha

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Spanish salsa.

Noun

salsa f (uncountable)

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus ‘salted’, past participle of sallere ‎(“to salt”), from sal.

Noun

salsa f ‎(plural salsas)

1. sauce
2. salsa (type of sauce flavored with chili and tomatoes that is popular in Latin America)
3. salsa (a type of music)
4. salsa (a type of dance)