salsa B2 Topic:Food & Drink US /ˈsɑl.sə/ UK /ˈsæl.sə/ See IPA manual Freq #11549 Meanings 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 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 verb To dance the salsa. They salsaed together until late into the night. Thesaurus Word family Derived forms salsa-likesalsalikesalsamolesalsaritasalsathequesongo-salsa Related forms salt Common collocations hot salsa Adjective + noun Etymology PIE word *sḗh₂l Borrowed from Spanish salsa (“sauce”), from Latin salsus (“salted”), whence also the doublet sauce (via Old French). salsus Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Food & Drink Art & Music External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # salsa **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun, verb **IPA (US):** /ˈsɑl.sə/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈsæl.sə/ **Frequency rank:** 11549 ## Meanings 1. A spicy sauce made from tomatoes, onions, and chilli peppers, often eaten with Mexican food. 2. A lively style of Latin American dance music, and the dance done to it. 3. To dance the salsa. ## Examples - We dipped the tortilla chips in fresh tomato salsa. - They took lessons so they could dance the salsa at the party. - They salsaed together until late into the night. ## Derived Forms - salsa-like - salsalike - salsamole - salsarita - salsatheque - songo-salsa ## Related Forms - salt ## Roots and Affixes - Root: salsus ## Etymology PIE word *sḗh₂l Borrowed from Spanish salsa (“sauce”), from Latin salsus (“salted”), whence also the doublet sauce (via Old French). ## Topics - Food & Drink - Art & Music markdown