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Salsa is from the Spanish salsa meaning sauce.
The spanish word derives from the Latin salsa meaning salty.
The word comes from Vulgar Latin meaning 'condiment', The word then travels to Spain where it means 'sauce' and then travels to the American Continents, particularly Mexico where salsa (again) means sauce, especially a hot sauce containing chillies and also because it has a variety and mixture of styles. The word also applies to a lively vigorous style of dance, being a mixture of rock and jazz styles. The sauce and the music having one thing in common - a mixture of styles
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 13y agoIt started ages ago when the black people came to Latin America , the Spanish people and the black African people became close and mixed their music and beats together creating the salsa but originally salsa comes from a Spanish background. The best salsa dancers in the world are mostly found in Colombia or in Cuba ( i am a salsa dancer myself)
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∙ 14y agoto add spice to a food or because of the mixyure of chillies made sumthing people like idk
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∙ 10y agoIt is a general term for popular dance music from Puerto Rica and Cuba
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∙ 14y agoCHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What language does the word salsa come from?
spanish
Where did the word salsa come from?
Salsa as a kind of sauce, derives from a Latin word, same spelling, meaning 'condiment'. In American/Spanish it is a kind of relish containing chopped up ingredients and this is a 20th Century word.
Is salsa a noun?
Yes, salsa is a noun. It refers to a type of spicy sauce or music and dance genre originating from Latin America.
How do you say gravy in Spanish?
Believe it or not the direct translation for the word "gravy" is salsa!
Does salsa come from Spain?
yes, of course
Did salsa come from Mexico or Peru?
Neither Mexico nor Peru, Salsa has its roots in the "cuban Son"
What is the word 'gravy' when translated from English to Spanish?
salsa Note: Salsa is known in the US as the word for a red spicy sauce, but in Spanish it means ANY kind of sauce, including gravy. salsa de carne
What is a 5 letter word for Mexican sauce?
Salsa
Where did the word salsa originate?
The word salsa originates in 1846 from Latin for "condiment" and from Spanish literature meaning "sauce." Later, in 1975, it came to mean a type of dance.
Where did salsa come from the dance?
slasa came from cuba
Does the salsa come from Mexico?
Only the spicy sauce qualifies as such. The salsa musicoriginated from Cuban, Puerto Rican and Colombian immigrants in the United States.
Who invented the salsa dip?
The Conquistadors gave salsa its name. The Spanish word for sauce being salsa. The food itself predates the Conquistadors. The ingredients for salsa originated in South America and were later grown by the Aztecs who were regularly ate what we know as salsa.
