salsa

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A spicy sauce made from tomatoes, onions, and chilli peppers, often eaten with Mexican food.

   We dipped the tortilla chips in fresh tomato salsa.

2. 2
   noun

   A lively style of Latin American dance music, and the dance done to it.

   They took lessons so they could dance the salsa at the party.

3. 3
   verb

   To dance the salsa.

   They salsaed together until late into the night.

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Simplified etymology

Salsa entered English in the mid-19th century from Spanish salsa, meaning “sauce.” In American Spanish the word was extended to mean a saucy dance and its music, senses recorded in English from the late 20th century.

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

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