"pizza" meaning in Italian

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpit.t͡sa/ Forms: pizze [plural]
Rhymes: -ittsa Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{m|nap|pizza}} pizza, {{der|it|gkm|πίτα|t=cake, pie}} Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “cake, pie”) Head templates: {{it-noun|f}} pizza f (plural pizze)
  1. (cooking) pizza Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Cooking
    Sense id: en-pizza-it-noun-ntFRWBne Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
  2. (film) reel Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Film genres, Pizza Synonyms: bobina, rullo
    Sense id: en-pizza-it-noun-dKYRheNu Disambiguation of Pizza: 23 60 13 4 Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 28 49 18 6 Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
  3. (idiomatic, colloquial, chiefly southern Italy) bore (something very monotonous and boring) Tags: Italy, Southern, colloquial, feminine, idiomatic Synonyms: noia, barba [colloquial], tedio [literary]
    Sense id: en-pizza-it-noun-MUODMQc2 Categories (other): Southern Italian
  4. (idiomatic, slang, chiefly central Italy) slap, smack (on the face) Tags: feminine, idiomatic, slang Synonyms: sberla, schiaffo, ceffone, manrovescio, sventola [informal]
    Sense id: en-pizza-it-noun-OE0Odofa Categories (other): Central Italian
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: pizza bianca, pizzaiola, pizzaiolo, pizzata, pizzeria, pizzetta, pizzoso

Inflected forms

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          "word": "ceffone"
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