PIZZA
What does "PIZZA" mean?
A flat round of baked dough topped with tomato, cheese, and other ingredients.
Meanings
- A dish of leavened flatbread baked with savoury toppings, originating in Italy. We split a margherita pizza straight from the wood-fired oven.
Did you know?
- The classic Margherita is said to date to 1889, when a Naples pizzaiolo topped a pie in red, white, and green to honour Queen Margherita of Savoy and the new Italian flag.
- Since 2010, true Neapolitan pizza has been an EU-protected Traditional Speciality Guaranteed - the dough, ingredients, and even the oven are defined by law.
Word origin
From Italian 'pizza', recorded in Gaeta in 997 CE; its earlier origin is debated, possibly from a Lombardic word related to 'bite' or from Greek/Latin roots for a flat bread.
A little poem
Dough sighs into heat.
Red moon of tomato sets-
we eat the sunrise.
haiku
Wordplay
- I asked the chef to cut my pizza into eight slices - I could never eat twelve.
What it teaches
The plainest base, given heat and a little generosity, becomes the thing everyone gathers around.
Quick facts
What does PIZZA mean?
A flat round of baked dough topped with tomato, cheese, and other ingredients.
Is PIZZA a valid word?
Yes — PIZZA is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is PIZZA?
PIZZA has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does PIZZA come from?
From Italian 'pizza', recorded in Gaeta in 997 CE; its earlier origin is debated, possibly from a Lombardic word related to 'bite' or from Greek/Latin roots for a flat bread.
What can PIZZA teach us?
The plainest base, given heat and a little generosity, becomes the thing everyone gathers around.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.