Meaning

noun Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese

originEtymology 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…

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