pizza
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skating
skiing
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta)bor.
Neapolitan pizzabor.
English pizza
First attested in 1931, borrowed from Neapolitan pizza (1590), the dialectal form of Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “cake, pie”). The Greek word is first attested in 1107 and is itself of uncertain origin.
The northern Italian dialectal form was pinza, the southern (Apulian and Calabrian) form was pitta. This suggests a derivation from Latin pīnctus (pictus (“painted, smeared”)) or pīnsum, pīnsitum, pistum (“pounded”), but the northern forms appear to be contaminated with pinzare (“to staple”).
There are alternative suggestions involving Greek etymologies (πηκτή (pēktḗ), πηκτός (pēktós, “compacted, congealed”); πήτεα (pḗtea, “bran”); Ancient Greek πιττάκιον (pittákion, “patch; tablet; ticket”)), more remote possibilities involve comparison with Lombardic pizzo, pizza (“bite, morsel, lump, dumpling”); Albanian petë (“layer”), Romanian pată (“blotch, stain, macula”); Albanian pite (“gruel”);
From Aramaic פִיתָּא (pītā, “piece of bread”), Hebrew פַּת (paṯ, “bread”). Doublet of pide and pita.
Inflected forms:
form: pizzas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pizze
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: pitza
pos: noun
tags: alternative
South-Africa
Senses:
gloss: A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: a slice of pizza
a pizza pie
Want to go out for pizza tonight?
gloss: A single instance of this dish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He ate a whole pizza!
Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner?
gloss: snowplow: a maneuver in which the tips of the skis or skates point inwards and the back ends point outwards.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: apizza
Derived words: California pizza
California-style pizza
cheese pizza
Chicago pizza
Chicago-style pizza
Chicago style pizza
deepdish pizza
deep-dish pizza
deep dish pizza
garden pizza
German pizza
Greek pizza
Hawaiian pizza
Japanese pizza
licorice pizza
margherita pizza
Margherita pizza
meatza
New York pizza
New York-style pizza
New York style pizza
nonpizza
outpizza
pan pizza
pavement-pizza
pavement pizza
pierogi pizza
pizza bagel
pizza bianca
pizza bite
pizza bone
pizza box
pizza boy
pizzaburger
pizza casserole
pizzachos
pizza crunch
pizza cutter
pizzadilla
pizza dish
pizza eggs
pizza face
pizza-face
pizza farm
pizza fractions
pizza fritta
Pizzagate
pizza-ghetti
pizza girl
pizza guy
pizzahead
pizzaholic
pizza joint
pizza lady
pizzaless
pizzalicious
pizzalike
pizzamaker
pizza man
pizza Margherita
Pizza Meter
pizza naan
pizza nigger
pizza oven
pizza paddle
pizza pan
pizza parlor
pizza parlour
pizza peel
pizza pie
pizza place
pizza pocket
pizza popper
pizza puff
pizzarito
pizza roll
pizza sauce
pizza saver
pizza shop
pizza stone
pizza store
pizza sub
pizza submarine sandwich
pizza sub sandwich
pizza table
pizza toast
pizza wheel
pizzawich
pizza woman
pizzeria
pizzetta
pizzoli
poor man's pizza
road pizza
sheet pizza
spaghetti pizza
sushi pizza
thick-crust pizza
thin-crust pizza
track pizza
Turkish pizza
two-pizza rule
white pizza
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