salpa

Borrowed from New Latin, from Latin salpa, from Ancient Greek σάλπη (sálpē, “a species of fish”). Doublet of salp.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsælpə/
• Rhymes: -ælpə

salpa (plural salpas or salpae)

1. Alternative form of salp.

• alaps, lapas, Palas, palas, palsa, plaas

• (fish): saupa

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsal.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsal.pa]

From Latin salpa, from Ancient Greek σάλπη (sálpē, “a species of fish”).

salpa f (plural salpes)

1. salema porgy (Sarpa salpa)
2. salp (tunicate)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

salpa

1. inflection of salpar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “salpa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑlpɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝lpɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlpɑ
• Syllabification^(key): sal‧pa
• Hyphenation^(key): sal‧pa

From Proto-Finnic *salpa (compare Karelian salpa, Veps saub), probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stalpą (whence dialectal Swedish stalpe (“pole”)).

salpa

1. bolt, bar (bar to prevent a door from being forced open; sliding pin or bar in a lock)

   Synonym: telki

2. hasp, clasp (metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin)
3. (electronics, computing) latch, flip-flop (bistable, electronic switching circuit)

• “salpa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Ultimately from Latin salpa (“stockfish”).

salpa

1. salp (fish)

• palsa

• IPA^(key): /ˈsal.pa/
• Rhymes: -alpa
• Hyphenation: sàl‧pa

Uncertain.

salpa f (plural salpe)

1. a kind of imitation leather used to bind books

From Latin salpa, from Ancient Greek σάλπη (sálpē, “a species of fish”).

salpa f (plural salpe)

1. Salema porgy (Sarpa salpa)

Borrowed from translingual Salpa.

salpa f (plural salpe)

1. any tunicate of the Sarpa taxonomic genus

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

salpa

1. inflection of salpare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• spala

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σάλπη (sálpē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsaɫ.pa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsal.pa]

salpa f (genitive salpae); first declension

1. A kind of stockfish

First-declension noun.

• “salpa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “salpa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Hyphenation: sal‧pa

salpa f (plural salpas)

1. salp (free-swimming tunicate of the family Salpidae)

• “salpa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “salpa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Latin salpa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalpa/ [ˈsal.pa]
• Rhymes: -alpa
• Syllabification: sal‧pa

salpa f (plural salpas)

1. salp
2. salema

• “salpa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025