pizza

• pitza (South Africa)

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”); From Aramaic פִיתָּא (pītā, “piece of bread”), Hebrew פַּת (paṯ, “bread”). Doublet of pide and pita.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːtsə/, [ˈpʰit.sə]

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  • Rhymes: -iːtsə
• (Indic, spelling pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pi(ː)zaː/
  • Rhymes: -iːzə

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

2. (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?

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

   Synonyms: pizza pie, pie

   He ate a whole pizza!

   Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner?

• apizza

• →? Chinese: 比薩 / 比萨 (bǐsà)
• → Hindi: पिज़्ज़ा (pizzā)
• → Persian: پیتزا
• → Tagalog: pitsa
• → Thai: พิซซ่า (pít-sâa)

• pizza on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

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

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pizza f (plural pizzes)

1. pizza

• pizzer

• pizzeria

pizza

1. (Mainland China, neologism) alternative form of 比薩 / 比萨 (bǐsà, “pizza”)
   • 2005, 子尤, 《谁的青春有我狂》‎^[2], 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。

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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/, /ˈpizaː/

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• Hyphenation: piz‧za

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

1. 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
• Hyphenation^(key): piz‧za

pizza

1. pizza

• “pizza”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /pid.za/

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pizza f (plural pizzas or pizze)

1. pizza

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

Unadapted borrowing from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitsa/ [ˈpit̪.s̺ɐ]
• Rhymes: -itsa
• Hyphenation: piz‧za

pizza f (plural pizzas)

1. pizza

• “pizza”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Borrowed from Italian pizza.^[1]

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

pizza (plural pizzák)

1. pizza

• pítsa (proscribed)

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰitsa/

pizza f (genitive singular pizzu, nominative plural pizzur)

1. (proscribed) alternative form of pitsa (“pizza”)

   Synonym: (rare) flatbaka

• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “pizza”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies

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. Also possibly from Lombardic bizzo.

• 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

• → English: pizza (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒ Finnish: pizza
• ⇒ Italian: pizza (see there for further descendants)

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

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

1. a pizza

   Skal vi bestille en pizza?

   Should we order 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.

pizza f

1. (Lombardic) alternative form of bizza (“morsel, chunk”)
   • [(Can we date this quote?), Codex Vindobonensis 804, p. 173a; Codex Wirziburgensis Mp. th. 4⁰ 60, p. 104b^[1]:

     offa — pizza]

Unadapted borrowing from Italian pizza. Doublet of pita.

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

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• Rhymes: -it͡st͡sa, -it͡sːa
• Syllabification: piz‧za

pizza f

1. pizza (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)

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

• piza (less common in Brazil)

Unadapted borrowing from Italian pizza, from Neapolitan pizza, from a local dialectal form of Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “cake, pie”). Doublet of pita.

• 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

Unadapted borrowing from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.t͡sa/

pizza f (plural pizze)

1. (cooking) pizza

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpit͡sa]

pizza f

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, 2003–2025

Unadapted borrowing from Italian pizza.

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

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• Syllabification: piz‧za

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /²pɪtsa/

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pizza c

1. pizza

   – Hej! Vi skulle vilja beställa en vesuvio-barnpizza, en capricciosa och en kebabpizza, tack! – Det fixar vi! Äta här eller ta med? – Ta med. – Okej! Tjugo minuter ungefär. – Perfekt, vi återkommer!

   – Hi! We'd like to order one child-size/small vesuvio, one capricciosa, and one kebabpizza, please. – Sure thing ("We'll fix that")! Eat here or take away ("take with")? – Take away. – Alright! It'll take about twenty minutes. – Perfect, we'll come back!

   svulla en pizza

   chow down a pizza

2. a flavour associated with certain types of pizza (e.g. capricciosa and vesuvio), often featuring ingredients or their flavours, such as tomato, cheese, ham, basil, and oregano

   Chipsen smakar pizza.

   The crisps taste like pizza.

   En pizzaburek.

   A pizza burek.

Pizza is customarily ordered whole in Sweden. For a smaller or larger pizza, see barnpizza and familjepizza.

• pizzeria

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

Borrowed from Italian pizza. Doublet of pide.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi(z)zɑ/

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pizza (definite accusative pizzayı, plural pizzalar)

1. (cooking) pizza

• “pizza”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu