salsa.
salsa; a usually spicy Mexican or Central American sauce or dip made chiefly from finely chopped or blended raw vegetables, commonly tomatoes, onions and chili peppers
Meaning & usage
salsa; a usually spicy Mexican or Central American sauce or dip made chiefly from finely chopped or blended raw vegetables, commonly tomatoes, onions and chili peppers
salsa; a style of Latin American popular and dance music that developed in New York during the 1960s from Caribbean traditions, especially Cuban and Puerto Rican forms, with influences from jazz and rock
salsa; a lively, often sensual partner dance performed to salsa music
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Spanish salsa (“sauce”), from Vulgar Latin *salsa (“sauce”), a noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from Latin saliō (“to salt”), from Latin sal (“salt”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l (“salt”). In the culinary sense, the borrowing has the narrower Latin American meaning “a sauce or dip”, rather than the general Spanish meaning “sauce”. The music and dance senses reflect the use of the Spanish word as the name of the genre that developed among Spanish-speaking communities in New York during the 1960s, drawing especially on Cuban and Puerto Rican musical traditions and jazz. Doublet of saus (“sauce”). Compare the parallel borrowings Norwegian Nynorsk salsa, Danish salsa, Swedish salsa, German Salsa, Dutch salsa, Finnish salsa, French salsa and Russian са́льса (sálʹsa, “salsa”).
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