"pizza" in seven languages
Meaningpizza
Spanish
pizza
/ˈpitsa/
fem.borrowed · Italian pizza
French
pizza
/pidza/
fem.borrowed · Italian pizza
Italian
pizza
/ˈpittsa/
fem.inherited
Portuguese
pizza
/ˈpitsɐ/
fem.borrowed · Italian pizza
Romanian
pizza
/ˈpitsa/
fem.borrowed · Italian pizza
Catalan
pizza
/ˈpitsə/
fem.borrowed · Italian pizza
English
pizza
/ˈpitsə/
from Latin/French · Italian pizza
English → ItalianpizzapizzaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The ancestor
Italian pizza (origin disputed)‘flat bread, pie’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
The word is Italian, but where Italian got it is disputed. French tends to say [pidza], Spanish [ˈpitsa]; only Italian doubles the ts.
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In a sentence
- es¿Pedimos una pizza?
- frOn commande une pizza ?
- itOrdiniamo una pizza?
- ptVamos pedir uma pizza?
- roComandăm o pizza?
- caDemanem una pizza?
- enShall we order a pizza?