pizza

CEFRA1

/ˈpiː.tsə/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A flat baked dish of bread topped with sauce, cheese, and other foods.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A single instance of this dish.

Examples

  • While eating a pizza he was annoying his sister.

  • I like pizza very much.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Synonyms
2

Also pronounced

  • [ˈpʰit.sə]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. snowplow: a maneuver in which the tips of the skis or skates point inwards and the back ends point outwards.

  2. 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.

More examples

In context

  • Want to go out for pizza tonight?

  • a slice of pizza

  • Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner?

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”)...