pizza

• pitza (South African English)

1931, borrowed from Neapolitan pizza (1590), the Neapolitan 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”); Aramaic פִיתָּא‎ (pītā, “piece of bread”), Hebrew פַּת‎ (paṯ, “bread”). Doublet of pita.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːt.sə/, [ˈpʰit.sə]

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• Rhymes: -iːtsə

pizza (countable and uncountable, plural pizzas or (rare) pizze)

1. (uncountable) 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.

   Synonym: 'za

   a slice of pizza

   a pizza pie

   Want to go out for pizza tonight?

2. (countable) A single instance of this dish.

   Synonyms: pizza pie, pie

   He ate a whole pizza!

   Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner?

pizza (comparative more pizza, superlative most pizza)

1. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Of or relating to pizza.

   pizza crust

2. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) With the typical toppings of pizza.

   pizza bagel

• pizza on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpi.d͡zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈpit.sa]

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pizza f (plural pizzes)

1. pizza

pizza

1. (Mainland China, neologism) Alternative form of 比薩／比萨 (bǐsà, “pizza”)
   • 2005, 子尤, 《谁的青春有我狂》‎, 少年儿童出版社, →ISBN, page 251:

     那时我们得空还是会往姥姥家跑，一天，王钊打电话告诉我，准备 9 月 30 日，学校放假的那天请朋友们在 pizza 饼店吃饭。

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From English pizza.

pizza

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) pizza (Classifier: 個／个 c; 塊／块 c; 件 c; 嚿 c)

• 披莎, 批莎

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɪt͡sa]
• Rhymes: -ɪtsa
• Hyphenation: pi‧z‧za

pizza f

1. pizza

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /pitsa/, [ˈpʰid̥sa]

pizza c (singular definite pizzaen, plural indefinite pizzaer)

1. pizza [from 1957]

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitsaː/, /ˈpidzaː/

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• Hyphenation: piz‧za

pizza f (plural pizza's, diminutive pizzaatje n)

1. pizza

• pizzabodem
• pizzaoven
• Turkse pizza

• pitsa

From Neapolitan pizza, of uncertain origin, likely related to the Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “cake, pie”). According to SSA, first attested in 1960.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitsɑ/, [ˈpits̠ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -itsɑ
• Syllabification^(key): piz‧za

pizza

1. pizza

• “pizza”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /pid.za/

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pizza f (plural pizzas)

1. pizza

• “pizza”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Italian pizza.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈpid͡zːɒ]
• Hyphenation: piz‧za
• Rhymes: -d͡zɒ

pizza (plural pizzák)

1. pizza

• pítsa (standard)
• pitsa

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰitsa/

pizza f (genitive singular pizzu, nominative plural pizzur)

1. pizza

   Synonym: (rare) flatbaka

• flatbaka (“pizza”)

pizza (plural pizzas)

1. pizza

1590, as Neapolitan pizza (Velardiniello, La storia de cient'anne arreto). Likely related to Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “cake, pie”) (12th century); the origin of the Greek word is itself uncertain.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpit.t͡sa/
• Rhymes: -ittsa
• Hyphenation: pìz‧za

pizza f (plural pizze)

1. (cooking) pizza

   Coordinate term: focaccia

2. (film) reel

   Synonyms: bobina, rullo

3. (idiomatic, colloquial, chiefly southern Italy) bore (something very monotonous and boring)

   Synonyms: noia, (colloquial) barba, (literary) tedio

   Che pizza questo spettacolo! ― This performance is such a bore!

4. (idiomatic, slang, chiefly central Italy) slap, smack (on the face)

   Synonyms: sberla, schiaffo, ceffone, manrovescio, (informal) sventola

   Si è arrabbiato così tanto che mi ha tirato una pizza!

   He got so angry that he slapped my face!

• pizza on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

• pazzi

Borrowed from Sicilian pizza and/or Italian pizza. Further origin uncertain.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪt.t͡sa/

pizza f (plural pizez)

1. pizza (dish)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitt͡sə/

pizza f

1. pizza

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

pizza m (definite singular pizzaen, indefinite plural pizzaer, definite plural pizzaene)

1. a pizza

• pizzaskjærer

• “pizza” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitsa/

pizza m (definite singular pizzaen, indefinite plural pizzaer or pizzaar, definite plural pizzaene or pizzaane)

1. pizza

• “pizza” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Unadapted borrowing from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpit͡s.t͡sa/, /ˈpit͡sːa/

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• Rhymes: -it͡st͡sa
• Syllabification: piz‧za

pizza f

1. pizza

• pizza in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pizza in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• piza

Unadapted borrowing from Italian pizza.

• Homophones: piza, pisa, Pisa (Portugal)

pizza f (plural pizzas)

1. pizza (baked Italian dish of dough with topped with tomato sauce, cheese and other ingredients)
2. (Brazil, slang) sweat visible in the clothes, specially under armpits

• acabar em pizza
• pizzaria

• pizzaiolo

Unadapted borrowing from Italian pizza.

pizza f (plural pizze)

1. (cooking) pizza

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpit͡sa]

pizza f (genitive singular pizze, nominative plural pizze, genitive plural pízz, declension pattern of stroj)

1. pizza

• pizzeria f

• “pizza”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Unadapted borrowing from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitsa/ [ˈpit̪.sa]
• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɡsa/ [ˈpiɣ̞.sa]
• IPA^(key): (or even, Spain) /ˈpiθa/ [ˈpi.θa]
• IPA^(key): (or even, Latin America) /ˈpisa/ [ˈpi.sa]

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pizza f (plural pizzas)

1. pizza

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “pizza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /²pɪtsa/

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pizza c

1. pizza

• kebabpizza
• lägga en pizza
• pizzabagare
• pizzasallad
• pizzadeg
• pizzeria
• råttan i pizzan

• pizza in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pizza in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /pi(z)ˈzɑ/

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pizza (definite accusative pizzayı, plural pizzalar)

1. (cooking) pizza

• pizza in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu