salsa

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See also: Salsa and salsą

English

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Green and red salsa (spicy tomato sauce).
Salsa dancers dancing salsa.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Descendants

  • Mongolian: салса (salsa)

Translations

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)

  1. (intransitive) To dance the salsa.
    They salsaed late until the night.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan salsa, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, a noun based on the feminine of Latin salsus (salted), perfect passive participle of salīre, a verb based on sāl.

Pronunciation

Noun

salsa f (plural salses)

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

Derived terms

References

Cebuano

Etymology

From English salsa. Doublet of sarsa.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: sal‧sa

Noun

salsa

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

Czech

Noun

salsa f

  1. salsa (dance)

Declension

Further reading

  • salsa in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɑl.saː/
  • Hyphenation: sal‧sa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English salsa, from Spanish salsa, from Latin salsus.

Noun

salsa m (plural salsa's)

  1. salsa (dance)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish salsa, from Latin salsus.

Noun

salsa m (plural salsa's)

  1. salsa (spicy tomato sauce)

Finnish

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Etymology

From Spanish salsa.

Pronunciation

Noun

salsa

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

Declension

Inflection of salsa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
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.
Possessive forms of salsa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative salsani salsani
accusative nom. salsani salsani
gen. salsani
genitive salsani salsojeni
salsaini rare
partitive salsaani salsojani
inessive salsassani salsoissani
elative salsastani salsoistani
illative salsaani salsoihini
adessive salsallani salsoillani
ablative salsaltani salsoiltani
allative salsalleni salsoilleni
essive salsanani salsoinani
translative salsakseni salsoikseni
abessive salsattani salsoittani
instructive
comitative salsoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative salsasi salsasi
accusative nom. salsasi salsasi
gen. salsasi
genitive salsasi salsojesi
salsaisi rare
partitive salsaasi salsojasi
inessive salsassasi salsoissasi
elative salsastasi salsoistasi
illative salsaasi salsoihisi
adessive salsallasi salsoillasi
ablative salsaltasi salsoiltasi
allative salsallesi salsoillesi
essive salsanasi salsoinasi
translative salsaksesi salsoiksesi
abessive salsattasi salsoittasi
instructive
comitative salsoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative salsamme salsamme
accusative nom. salsamme salsamme
gen. salsamme
genitive salsamme salsojemme
salsaimme rare
partitive salsaamme salsojamme
inessive salsassamme salsoissamme
elative salsastamme salsoistamme
illative salsaamme salsoihimme
adessive salsallamme salsoillamme
ablative salsaltamme salsoiltamme
allative salsallemme salsoillemme
essive salsanamme salsoinamme
translative salsaksemme salsoiksemme
abessive salsattamme salsoittamme
instructive
comitative salsoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative salsanne salsanne
accusative nom. salsanne salsanne
gen. salsanne
genitive salsanne salsojenne
salsainne rare
partitive salsaanne salsojanne
inessive salsassanne salsoissanne
elative salsastanne salsoistanne
illative salsaanne salsoihinne
adessive salsallanne salsoillanne
ablative salsaltanne salsoiltanne
allative salsallenne salsoillenne
essive salsananne salsoinanne
translative salsaksenne salsoiksenne
abessive salsattanne salsoittanne
instructive
comitative salsoinenne
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative salsansa salsansa
accusative nom. salsansa salsansa
gen. salsansa
genitive salsansa salsojensa
salsainsa rare
partitive salsaansa salsojaan
salsojansa
inessive salsassaan
salsassansa
salsoissaan
salsoissansa
elative salsastaan
salsastansa
salsoistaan
salsoistansa
illative salsaansa salsoihinsa
adessive salsallaan
salsallansa
salsoillaan
salsoillansa
ablative salsaltaan
salsaltansa
salsoiltaan
salsoiltansa
allative salsalleen
salsallensa
salsoilleen
salsoillensa
essive salsanaan
salsanansa
salsoinaan
salsoinansa
translative salsakseen
salsaksensa
salsoikseen
salsoiksensa
abessive salsattaan
salsattansa
salsoittaan
salsoittansa
instructive
comitative salsoineen
salsoinensa

Synonyms

Further reading

French

Pronunciation

Noun

salsa f (plural salsas)

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

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

salsa f (plural salsas)

  1. sauce, gravy (liquid condiment)
    Synonyms: mollo, prebe
  2. salt water
    Synonym: auga salgada
  3. seawater
    Synonym: auga do mar
  4. brine
    Synonym: salmoira
  5. (figurative) gift of the gab
  6. salsa (tomato sauce)
  7. salsa (dance)

Derived terms

References

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsal.sa/
  • Rhymes: -alsa
  • Hyphenation: sàl‧sa

Noun

salsa f (plural salse)

  1. sauce

Descendants

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

salsa

  1. inflection of salsus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

salsā

  1. ablative feminine singular of salsus

References

Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish salsa, from Latin salsus (salted). Doublet of sos (sauce).

Pronunciation

Noun

salsa f

  1. salsa (spicy tomato sauce)
  2. salsa (dance)

Declension

Further reading

  • salsa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • salsa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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salsa

Pronunciation

 

  • 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

Borrowed from Spanish salsa.

Noun

salsa f (uncountable)

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

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish salsa.

Noun

salsa f (plural salse)

  1. salsa

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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)

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Adjective

salsa f

  1. feminine singular of salso

Swedish

Noun

salsa c

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

Declension

Declension of salsa 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative salsa salsan salsor salsorna
Genitive salsas salsans salsors salsornas

References

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish salsa, from Latin salsus (salted).

Pronunciation

Noun

salsa (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ᜔ᜐ)

  1. dip; sauce; gravy
    Synonym: sawsawan
  2. salsa (dance)

Derived terms

See also

References

  • salsa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018