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salsa.

A spicy tomato sauce of Mexican origin, often including onions and hot peppers.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈsɑl.sə/US/ˈsæl.sə/UK
  1. A spicy tomato sauce of Mexican origin, often including onions and hot peppers.

    countable
  2. A style of urban music originally from New York heavily influenced by Cuban dance music, jazz and rock.

    uncountable
  3. Any of several dances performed to salsa music.

    countable
Where this word comes from

PIE word *sḗh₂l Borrowed from Spanish salsa (“sauce”), from Latin salsus (“salted”), whence also the doublet sauce (via Old French).

verb/ˈsɑl.sə/US/ˈsæl.sə/UK
  1. To dance the salsa.

    intransitive
    They salsaed late until the night.
Where this word comes from

PIE word *sḗh₂l Borrowed from Spanish salsa (“sauce”), from Latin salsus (“salted”), whence also the doublet sauce (via Old French).

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