pizza

Alternative forms

• pitza (South African English)

Etymology

Borrowed from Neapolitan pizza, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Byzantine Greek πίττα (pítta, “cake, pie”), from Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch”), Attic πίττα (pítta), from πεπτός (peptós, “cooked”) or from Lombardic bizza, pizza (“bite; lump; chunk; dumpling”), or from Latin pinso (“I beat, pound”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈpiːt.sə/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

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

1. (uncountable) A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit

   a slice of pizza

   a pizza pie

   Want to go out for pizza tonight?

2. (countable) A single instance of this dish

   He ate a whole pizza!

   Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner?

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Noun

pizza f (plural pizzes)

1. pizza

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pizza f

1. pizza

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pitsa/, [ˈpʰid̥sa]

Noun

pizza c (singular definite pizzaen, plural indefinite pizzaer)

1. pizza [from 1957]

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitsa/, IPA^(key): /ˈpidza/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

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

1. pizza

Alternative forms

• pitsa

Etymology

From Italian pizza, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Byzantine Greek πίττα (pítta, “cake, pie”), from Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch”), Attic πίττα (pítta), from πεπτός (peptós, “cooked”) or from Lombardic bizzo (“bit, bite”), or from Latin pinso (“I beat, pound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitsɑ/
• Hyphenation: piz‧za

Noun

pizza

1. pizza

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.dza/

• Audio (CAN)

  (file)

Noun

pizza f (plural pizzas)

1. pizza

Further reading

• “pizza” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Alternative forms

• pítsa (standard)
• pitsa

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Noun

pizza f (genitive singular pizzu, nominative plural pizzur)

1. pizza

Noun

pizza (plural pizzas)

1. pizza

Etymology

Of uncertain origin: perhaps from Byzantine Greek πίττα (pítta, “cake, pie”), from Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch”), Attic Greek πίττα (pítta), from πεπτός (peptós, “cooked”), or borrowed from Lombardic bizzo, or from Latin pinsō (“I beat, pound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpit.tsa/, [ˈpit̪͡s̪ːä]
• Hyphenation: pìz‧za

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

una pizza margherita

a margherita pizza

pizza f (plural pizze)

1. (foods) pizza
2. (film) reel
3. (idiomatic, colloquial, chiefly southern Italy) something very monotonous and boring; a bore

   Che pizza questo spettacolo!

   This performance is such a bore!

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

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

   He got so angry that he slapped my face!

Anagrams

• pazzi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitt͡sə/

Noun

pizza f

1. pizza

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Noun

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

1. a pizza

References

• “pizza” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitsa/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

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

1. pizza

References

• “pizza” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʲit͡s.t͡sa/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

pizza f

1. pizza

Alternative forms

• piza (Portugal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpitsɐ/ or even IPA^(key): /ˈpitʃisɐ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpizɐ/

Noun

pizza f (plural pizzas)

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.t͡sa/

Noun

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

1. pizza

Further reading

• pizza in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpiksa/, /ˈpi(t)sa/

Noun

pizza f (plural pizzas)

1. pizza

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitˌsa/

Noun

pizza c

1. pizza

Noun

pizza (definite accusative pizzayı, plural pizzalar)

1. (cooking) pizza