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salsa.

sauce, gravy (liquid condiment)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈsalsa/[ˈsal.sa]
  1. sauce, gravy (liquid condiment)

    feminine
  2. A sauce and/or dip of varying textures with a typical base of tomatoes, onion, and chili peppers.

    Latin-America · feminine
  3. salsa (style of music)

    feminine
  4. salsa (dance performed to salsa music)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

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

adj/ˈsalsa/[ˈsal.sa]
  1. feminine singular of salso

    feminine · form-of · singular
Where this word comes from

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

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