pizza

See also: Pizza

English

A pizza.
Pizza in a coal-fired oven.

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 pīnsō (I beat, pound).

Pronunciation

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?

Usage notes

In phrases like pizza bread and pizza bagel, pizza refers to the toppings.

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Translations


Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Noun

pizza f (plural pizzes)

  1. pizza

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pizza f

  1. pizza

Declension


Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pitsa/, [ˈpʰid̥sa]

Noun

pizza c (singular definite pizzaen, plural indefinite pizzaer)

  1. pizza [from 1957]

Inflection


Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpitsaː/, /ˈpidzaː/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: piz‧za

Noun

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

  1. pizza

Derived terms

  • pizzabodem
  • pizzaoven

Finnish

Alternative forms

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/, [ˈpit̪s̠ɑ]
  • Hyphenation: piz‧za

Noun

pizza

  1. pizza

Declension

Inflection of pizza (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative pizza pizzat
genitive pizzan pizzojen
partitive pizzaa pizzoja
illative pizzaan pizzoihin
singular plural
nominative pizza pizzat
accusative nom. pizza pizzat
gen. pizzan
genitive pizzan pizzojen
pizzainrare
partitive pizzaa pizzoja
inessive pizzassa pizzoissa
elative pizzasta pizzoista
illative pizzaan pizzoihin
adessive pizzalla pizzoilla
ablative pizzalta pizzoilta
allative pizzalle pizzoille
essive pizzana pizzoina
translative pizzaksi pizzoiksi
instructive pizzoin
abessive pizzatta pizzoitta
comitative pizzoineen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pid.za/
  • (file)
  • (file)

Noun

pizza f (plural pizzas)

  1. pizza

Further reading


Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpid͡zːɒ]
  • Hyphenation: piz‧za

Noun

pizza (plural pizzák)

  1. pizza

Inflection

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative pizza pizzák
accusative pizzát pizzákat
dative pizzának pizzáknak
instrumental pizzával pizzákkal
causal-final pizzáért pizzákért
translative pizzává pizzákká
terminative pizzáig pizzákig
essive-formal pizzaként pizzákként
essive-modal
inessive pizzában pizzákban
superessive pizzán pizzákon
adessive pizzánál pizzáknál
illative pizzába pizzákba
sublative pizzára pizzákra
allative pizzához pizzákhoz
elative pizzából pizzákból
delative pizzáról pizzákról
ablative pizzától pizzáktól
Possessive forms of pizza
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. pizzám pizzáim
2nd person sing. pizzád pizzáid
3rd person sing. pizzája pizzái
1st person plural pizzánk pizzáink
2nd person plural pizzátok pizzáitok
3rd person plural pizzájuk pizzáik

References

  1. Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Icelandic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Noun

pizza f (genitive singular pizzu, nominative plural pizzur)

  1. pizza

Declension

Synonyms


Interlingua

Noun

pizza (plural pizzas)

  1. pizza

Italian

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.t͡sa/
  • Hyphenation: pìz‧za
  • (file)

Noun

una pizza margherita
a margherita pizza

pizza f (plural pizze)

  1. (cooking) pizza
  2. (film) reel
    Synonyms: bobina, rullo
  3. (idiomatic, colloquial, chiefly southern Italy) something very monotonous and boring; a bore
    Che pizza questo spettacolo!
    This performance is such a bore!
    Synonyms: noia, barba (colloquial), tedio (literary)
  4. (idiomatic, slang, chiefly central Italy) a slap, a smack on the face
    Synonyms: sberla, schiaffo, ceffone, manrovescio, sventola (informal)
    Si è arrabbiato così tanto che mi ha tirato una pizza!
    He got so angry that he slapped my face!

Derived terms

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Anagrams


Neapolitan

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpitt͡sə/

Noun

pizza f

  1. pizza

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Noun

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

  1. a pizza

Derived terms

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

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


Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʲit͡s.t͡sa/
  • (file)

Noun

pizza f

  1. pizza

Declension


Portuguese

Alternative forms

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

Derived terms


Slovak

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

Declension

Further reading

  • pizza in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

  • (Castilian) IPA(key): /ˈpiθa/
  • (Latin America) IPA(key): /ˈpisa/
  • (Castilian) IPA(key): /ˈpidθa/, [ˈpiðθa]
  • (Latin America) IPA(key): /ˈpidsa/, [ˈpiðsa]
  • (Castilian) IPA(key): /ˈpiɡθa/, [ˈpiɣθa]
  • (Latin America) IPA(key): /ˈpiɡsa/, [ˈpiɣsa]

Noun

pizza f (plural pizzas)

  1. pizza

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpitˌsa/

Noun

pizza c

  1. pizza

Declension

Declension of pizza 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pizza pizzan pizzor pizzorna
Genitive pizzas pizzans pizzors pizzornas

Derived terms

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Turkish

Noun

pizza (definite accusative pizzayı, plural pizzalar)

  1. (cooking) pizza

Declension

Inflection
Nominative pizza
Definite accusative pizzayı
Singular Plural
Nominative pizza pizzalar
Definite accusative pizzayı pizzaları
Dative pizzaya pizzalara
Locative pizzada pizzalarda
Ablative pizzadan pizzalardan
Genitive pizzanın pizzaların
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular pizzam pizzalarım
2nd singular pizzan pizzaların
3rd singular pizzası pizzaları
1st plural pizzamız pizzalarımız
2nd plural pizzanız pizzalarınız
3rd plural pizzaları pizzaları
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