pizza

English

A pizza.

Pizza in a wood-fired oven.

Alternative forms

• pitza (South Africa)

Etymology

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 pide and pita.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːt.sə/,

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːtsə

Noun

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?

Derived terms

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• pizza on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ^ca

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

pizza f (plural pizzes)

1. pizza

Chinese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

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。

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 2

From English pizza.

Pronunciation

Noun

pizza

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

Alternative forms

• 披莎, 批莎

Synonyms

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ^cs

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pizza f

1. pizza

Declension

Related terms

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pitsa/,

Noun

pizza c (singular definite pizzaen, plural indefinite pizzaer)

1. pizza

Inflection

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitsaː/, /ˈpidzaː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: piz‧za

Noun

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

1. pizza

Derived terms

• pizzabodem
• pizzaoven
• Turkse pizza

Finnish

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ^fi

Alternative forms

• pitsa

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pizza

1. pizza

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• “pizza”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pid.za/

• Audio (CAN)

  (file)

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

pizza f (plural pizzas)

1. pizza

Derived terms

Further reading

• “pizza”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Galician

Galician Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ^gl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitsa/
• Rhymes: -itsa
• Hyphenation: piz‧za

Noun

pizza f (plural pizzas)

1. pizza

Related terms

Further reading

• “pizza” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Hungarian

 pizza on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pizza (plural pizzák)

1. pizza

Inflection

References

Icelandic

Icelandic Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ^is

Alternative forms

• pítsa (standard)
• pitsa

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰitsa/

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Noun

pizza f (genitive singular pizzu, nominative plural pizzur)

1. pizza

   Synonym: (rare) flatbaka

Declension

Synonyms

• flatbaka (“pizza”)

Interlingua

Noun

pizza (plural pizzas)

1. pizza

Italian

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

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!

Derived terms

Further reading

• pizza on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• pazzi

Maltese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪt.t͡sa/

Noun

pizza f (plural pizez)

1. pizza (dish)

Neapolitan

Neapolitan Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ^nap

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitt͡sə/

Noun

pizza f

1. pizza

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Noun

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

1. a pizza

Derived terms

• pizzaskjærer

References

• “pizza” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitsa/

Noun

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

1. pizza

References

• “pizza” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian pizza. Doublet of pita.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpit͡s.t͡sa/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -it͡st͡sa
• Syllabification: piz‧za

Noun

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)

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ^pt

Alternative forms

• piza

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• Homophones: piza, pisa, Pisa (Portugal)

Noun

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

Derived terms

• acabar em pizza
• pizzaria

Related terms

• pizzaiolo

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.t͡sa/

Noun

pizza f (plural pizze)

1. (cooking) pizza

Declension

Slovak

Slovak Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ^sk

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

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

1. pizza

Declension

Related terms

• pizzeria f

Further reading

• “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

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitsa/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɡsa/
• IPA^(key): (or even, Spain) /ˈpiθa/
• IPA^(key): (or even, Latin America) /ˈpisa/

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Syllabification: piz‧za

Noun

pizza f (plural pizzas)

1. pizza

Usage notes

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.

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²pɪtsa/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

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

Usage notes

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

Declension

Derived terms

• barnpizza
• familjepizza
• kebabpizza
• lägga en pizza
• pizzabagare (“pizza chef”)
• pizzasallad
• pizzadeg (“pizza dough”)
• pizzakartong (“pizza box”)
• pizzeria
• råttan i pizzan

Related terms

• pizzeria

References

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

Turkish

Turkish Wikipedia has an article on:

pizza

Wikipedia ^tr

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi(z)ˈzɑ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

pizza (definite accusative pizzayı, plural pizzalar)

1. (cooking) pizza

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

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