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pizza.

pizza (Italian dish)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Italiano language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpit.t͡sa/
  1. pizza (Italian dish)

    feminine
  2. reel

    feminine
  3. bore (something very monotonous and boring)

    Italy · Southern · colloquial · feminine · idiomatic
    Che pizza questo spettacolo!
  4. slap, smack (on the face)

    feminine · idiomatic · slang
    Si è arrabbiato così tanto che mi ha tirato una pizza!
Where this word comes from

First attested in 1590, as Neapolitan pizza (Velardiniello, La storia de cient'anne arreto). Likely related to Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “cake, pie”) (12th century); the origin of the Greek word is itself uncertain. Also possibly from Lombardic bizza (also pizza or bizzo (pizzo), which would rather suggest a north-to-south spread of the word. See the English and Greek entries for more detail.

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