pizza

Definition of pizza

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(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.

“a slice of pizza”
“a pizza pie”
“Want to go out for pizza tonight?”

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noun

(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.

“a slice of pizza”
“a pizza pie”
“Want to go out for pizza tonight?”
(countable)A single instance of this dish.

“He ate a whole pizza!”
“Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner?”
(countable, uncountable)snowplow: a maneuver in which the tips of the skis or skates point inwards and the back ends point outwards.

name

A surname from Italian.

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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…

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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.

Words you can make from pizza

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3-letter words

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2-letter words

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A single letter you can add to pizza to make another valid word.