Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗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. · A single instance of this dish. · snowplow: a maneuver in which the tips of the skis or skates point inwards and the back ends point outwards.
First attested in 1931, borrowed from Neapolitan pizza (1590), of uncertain origin. Possibly related to Medieval Greek πίτα (píta, “cake, pie”), attested in 1107 and 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”). Possibly doublet of pide and pita.
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- Borrowed-form mentionpizzanap
- Derivation mentionpīnctusla
- Cognate mentionπιττάκιονgrc · patch; tablet; ticket
- Cognate mentionpetësq · layer
- Cognate mentionpatăro · blotch, stain, macula
- Cognate mentionpitesq · gruel
- Derivation mentionפִיתָּאarc · piece of bread
- Cognate mentionפַּתhe · bread
- Doublet mentionpideen
- Doublet mentionpitaen
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