name
Meaning 1
A surname from Italian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
pizza
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpiː.tsə/
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Received-Pronunciation: [ˈphit.sə]
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General-American: /ˈpi.tsə/
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rhymes with -iːtsə
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rhymes with -iːzə
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CMU ARPABET: P IY1 T S AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- a slice of pizza
- a pizza pie
- Want to go out for pizza tonight?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: 'za
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A single instance of this dish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Examples
- He ate a whole pizza!
- Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pizza pie, pie
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
snowplow: a maneuver in which the tips of the skis or skates point inwards and the back ends point outwards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, skating, skiing, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pizza pie
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dish
Narrower terms: sausage pizza, pepperoni pizza, cheese pizza, anchovy pizza, Sicilian pizza
History
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 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.
Across languages
Translations
153 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: pizza — Italian dish
- Albanian: picë — Italian dish
- Amharic: ፒዛ (piza) — Italian dish
- Arabic: بِيتْزَا (bītzā) — Italian dish
- Arabic: بيتزا (acw) — Italian dish
- Arabic: بيتزا (ary) — Italian dish
- Tunisian Arabic: بيتزا (pītza) — Italian dish
- Armenian: պիցցա (picʻcʻa) — Italian dish
- Basque: pizza — Italian dish
- Belarusian: пі́ца (píca) — Italian dish
- Bengali: পিৎজা (pitja) — Italian dish
- Bulgarian: пи́ца (píca) — Italian dish
- Burmese: ပီဇာ (pija) — Italian dish
- Catalan: pizza — Italian dish
- Chechen: пицс (pics) — Italian dish
- Chechen: питц (pitc) — Italian dish
- Chinese Cantonese: 薄餅 /薄饼 (bok6 beng2) — Italian dish
- Chinese Mandarin: 比薩 /比萨 (bǐsà) — Italian dish
- Chinese Mandarin: 披薩 /披萨 (pīsà) — Italian dish
- Chinese Mandarin: 比薩餅 /比萨饼 (bǐsàbǐng) — Italian dish
- Czech: pizza — Italian dish
- Danish: pizza — Italian dish
- Dhivehi: ޕިއްޒާ (pizzā) — Italian dish
- Dutch: pizza — Italian dish
- Esperanto: pico — Italian dish
- Estonian: pitsa — Italian dish
- Faroese: pitsa — Italian dish
- Finnish: pizza — Italian dish
- Finnish: pitsa — Italian dish
- French: pizza — Italian dish
- Gagauz: pițța — Italian dish
- Galician: pizza — Italian dish
- Georgian: პიცა (ṗica) — Italian dish
- German: Pizza — Italian dish
- Greek: πίτσα (pítsa) — Italian dish
- Gujarati: પીત્ઝા (pītjhā) — Italian dish
- Hebrew: פִּיצָה (pítsa) — Italian dish
- Hindi: पिज़ा (pizā) — Italian dish
- Hindi: पिज़्ज़ा (pizzā) — Italian dish
- White Hmong: pis xam — Italian dish
- Hungarian: pizza — Italian dish
- Icelandic: flatbaka — Italian dish
- Icelandic: pítsa — Italian dish
- Icelandic: pitsa — Italian dish
- Ido: pizza — Italian dish
- Indonesian: piza — Italian dish
- Indonesian: pizza — Italian dish
- Interlingua: pizza — Italian dish
- Irish: píotsa — Italian dish
- Italian: pizza — Italian dish
- Japanese: ピザ (piza) — Italian dish
- Japanese: ピッツァ (pittsa) — Italian dish
- Japanese: ピザパイ (pizapai) — Italian dish
- Kapampangan: pitsa — Italian dish
- Kazakh: пицца (pissa) — Italian dish
- Khmer: ភីហ្សា (phiizaa) — Italian dish
- Korean: 피자 (pija) — Italian dish
- Central Kurdish: پیتزا (pîtza) — Italian dish
- Laki: پیتزا (pîtza) — Italian dish
- Northern Kurdish: pîza — Italian dish
- Southern Kurdish: پیتزا (pîtza) — Italian dish
- Kyrgyz: пицца (pitstsa) — Italian dish
- Lakota: aǧúyapi-blaská — Italian dish
- Lao: ພິດຊ້າ (phit sā) — Italian dish
- Lao: ພິດຊ່າ (phit sā) — Italian dish
- Lao: ພິດຊາ (phit sā) — Italian dish
- Latin: placenta neapolitana — Italian dish
- Latin: pitta — Italian dish
- Latvian: pica — Italian dish
- Lithuanian: pica — Italian dish
- Luxembourgish: Pizza — Italian dish
- Macedonian: пи́ца (píca) — Italian dish
- Malay: pizza — Italian dish
- Maltese: pizza — Italian dish
- Maltese: ftajra — Italian dish
- Māori: parehe — Italian dish
- Marathi: पिझ्झा (pijhjhā) — Italian dish
- Mongolian: пицца (picca) — Italian dish
- Navajo: náneeskaadítéél — Italian dish
- Norwegian Bokmål: pizza — Italian dish
- Norwegian Nynorsk: pizza — Italian dish
- Pannonian Rusyn: пица (pica) — Italian dish
- Pashto: پيزا (pizā) — Italian dish
- Iranian Persian: پیتْزا (pitzâ) — Italian dish
- Plautdietsch: Pieza (nds) — Italian dish
- Polish: pizza — Italian dish
- Portuguese: pizza — Italian dish
- Portuguese: piza — Italian dish
- Portuguese: pitsa — Italian dish
- Portuguese: pítiça — Italian dish
- Punjabi: ਪੀਜ਼ਾ (pīzā) — Italian dish
- Romanian: pizza — Italian dish
- Russian: пи́цца (pícca) — Italian dish
- Serbo-Croatian: пи̏ца — Italian dish
- Serbo-Croatian: pȉca — Italian dish
- Sicilian: cuḍḍuruni — Italian dish
- Sicilian: pizza — Italian dish
- Sicilian: pizzolu — Italian dish
- Slovak: pizza — Italian dish
- Slovene: pica — Italian dish
- Slovene: pizza — Italian dish
- Lower Sorbian: pizza — Italian dish
- Spanish: pizza — Italian dish
- Swedish: pizza — Italian dish
- Tagalog: pitsa — Italian dish
- Tajik: питса (pitsa) — Italian dish
- Tamil: பீத்சா (pītcā) — Italian dish
- Tamil: பீஸ்ஸா (pīssā) — Italian dish
- Tamil: பீட்ஸா (pīṭsā) — Italian dish
- Tamil: பீசா (pīcā) — Italian dish
- Telugu: పిజ్జా (pijjā) — Italian dish
- Thai: พิซซ่า (pít-sâa) — Italian dish
- Turkish: pizza — Italian dish
- Turkmen: pissa — Italian dish
- Ukrainian: пі́ца (píca) — Italian dish
- Urdu: پِیزا (pīzā) — Italian dish
- Uyghur: پىسسا (pissa) — Italian dish
- Uzbek: pitsa — Italian dish
- Vietnamese: bánh pizza — Italian dish
- Vietnamese: pizza — Italian dish
- Welsh: pitsa — Italian dish
- Yiddish: פּיצע (pitse) — Italian dish
- Afrikaans: pizza — a single instance of that dish
- Bengali: পিৎজা (pitja) — a single instance of that dish
- Bulgarian: пи́ца (píca) — a single instance of that dish
- Catalan: pizza — a single instance of that dish
- Chinese Mandarin: 比薩 /比萨 (bǐsà) — a single instance of that dish
- Chinese Mandarin: 披薩 /披萨 (pīsà) — a single instance of that dish
- Chinese Mandarin: 比薩餅 /比萨饼 (bǐsàbǐng) — a single instance of that dish
- Dutch: pizza — a single instance of that dish
- Finnish: pizza — a single instance of that dish
- Finnish: pitsa — a single instance of that dish
- German: Pizza — a single instance of that dish
- Greek: πίτσα (pítsa) — a single instance of that dish
- Hungarian: pizza — a single instance of that dish
- Italian: pizza — a single instance of that dish
- Japanese: ピザ (piza) — a single instance of that dish
- Japanese: ピッツァ (pittsa) — a single instance of that dish
- Lakota: aǧúyapi-blaská — a single instance of that dish
- Latvian: pica — a single instance of that dish
- Norwegian Bokmål: pizza — a single instance of that dish
- Norwegian Nynorsk: pizza — a single instance of that dish
- Polish: pizza — a single instance of that dish
- Portuguese: pizza — a single instance of that dish
- Russian: пи́цца (pícca) — a single instance of that dish
- Spanish: pizza — a single instance of that dish
- Swedish: pizza — a single instance of that dish
- Tamil: பீத்சா (pītcā) — a single instance of that dish
- Tamil: பீஸ்ஸா (pīssā) — a single instance of that dish
- Tamil: பீட்ஸா (pīṭsā) — a single instance of that dish
- Tamil: பீசா (pīcā) — a single instance of that dish
- Ukrainian: пі́ца (píca) — a single instance of that dish
- Yiddish: פּיצע (pitse) — a single instance of that dish
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