Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·italian ·1900s
Pizza
from pizza
- Meaning
- A flat baked dough topped with savoury ingredients.
- Source word
- pizza
- Route into English
- Naples 19th c.; Italian-American food shops in NYC and Chicago took it national in the 1950s.
- Arrived
- 1900s
English borrows.
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