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salsa.

sauce

5 characters2 syllables approx.Català language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈsal.sə]Balearic, Central, Northern[ˈsal.sa]Northwestern, Valencia

  1. sauce

    feminine

  2. salsa (music)

    feminine

  3. salsa (dance)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

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.

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