salsa.
A spicy tomato sauce of Mexican origin, often including onions and hot peppers.
Meaning & usage
A spicy tomato sauce of Mexican origin, often including onions and hot peppers.
A style of urban music originally from New York heavily influenced by Cuban dance music, jazz and rock.
Any of several dances performed to salsa music.
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).
To dance the salsa.
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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