pizze

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English

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Etymology

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English irregular plural forms are usually from the plural form of the singular form’s etymon, which is Neapolitan pizze, the plural of pizza; however, it is much more likely to have been borrowed from Italian pizze, due to the worldwide influence of Italian cuisine.

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Noun

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pizze

  1. (rare) plural of pizza
    • 1938, Giuseppe Orioli, Adventures of a Bookseller, page 321:
      [] they manufacture the detestable tarts called pizze, very popular in this part of the world.
    • 1957, Armando T. Perretta, Take a Number, page 82:
      Twice a week his mother baked bread, and twice a week there were pizze fritte for breakfast instead of cocoa and stale bread.
    • 1973, Maria-Antonietta MacciocchiPartito Comunista Italianoet al., Letters from Inside the Italian Communist Party to Louis Althusser, page 121:
      The city seemed like one gigantic fry-shop, with ‘zeppole’, ‘pizze’ and ‘calzoni’ sizzling on every street-corner.
    • 1999, Elizabeth David, Italian Food, page 115:
      The variety of pizze is immense. The true Roman pizza, for instance, is made with onions and oil, no tomato.
    • 2000, Matthew Evans, Italy: World Food, page 2:
      The most exquisite pizze are cooked in a forno a legna (woodfired oven).
    • 2004, Anna Del Conte, The Classic Food of Northern Italy, page 203:
      Umbria is rich in paste, pizze, savoury torte, minestre and polenta dishes.

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pizze

  1. dative/locative singular of pizza

Italian

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pizze f

  1. plural of pizza

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