pizza English · revision 5218

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1845|origins=it pizza}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: UK /ˈpiːt.sə/, /ˈpɪt.sə/, US /ˈpiːt.sə/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|it|pizza|t=cake, tart, pie]], a word of uncertain origin.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(NODE 1998) Proposed sources include Vulgar Latin *picea, from Latin piceus “of pitch”, Latin pīnsere “to pound” and Greek pitta “cake”, but according to Barnhart none overcomes the difficulties of form or meaning.^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024)^(Collins 2023)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A flat round of dough baked with a topping: 1845 in Etymonline, in a translation of Alexandre Dumas's sketches of Naples; the OED and Barnhart first record it in 1935, and SOED in the late 19th century.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a new food to native-born Americans when immigrants began to open pizzerias in the Northeast of the United States in the 1920s.^(Etymonline) Combinations such as ''pizza parlour'' and ''pizza pie'' are from 1971 in the OED.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1845 – in a translation of Dumas.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1920s – pizzerias in the United States.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1935 – first OED quotation.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A flat, round base of [[dough]] baked with a topping of tomatoes, [[cheese]] and often other foods such as sausage or olives.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pizzalike]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pizzeria]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}