salpa
/ˈsælpə/noun
salpa is a noun meaning “Alternative form of salp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-L-P-A, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of salpa is salpas or salpae.
What does salpa mean?
noun
- 1
Alternative form of salp.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce salpa?
- /ˈsælpə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of salpa
- salpas plural
- salpae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is salpa?
Salpa appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does salpa come from?
Borrowed from New Latin, from Latin salpa, from Ancient Greek σάλπη (sálpē, “a species of fish”). Doublet of salp.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).