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salsa

Pronunciation: /¹ˈsal.sa/

“salsa” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. salsa; a lively, often sensual partner dance performed to salsa music

Etymology

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…

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