focaccia

English

Focaccia bread with rosemary garnish.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian focaccia, diminutive form of fuoco (“fire”), from Latin focus (“fireplace”), or through a Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *focacia. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian pogača (“unleavened bread”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fəˈkæ.tʃə/
• IPA^(key): /foʊˈkɑ.tʃə/; IPA^(key): /fəˈkɑ.tʃə/; IPA^(key): /fəˈkɑ.tʃi.ə/

Noun

focaccia (countable and uncountable, plural focaccias)

1. (uncountable) A flat bread similar in style, composition, and texture to modern pizza doughs and topped with herbs, cheese and other products. Focaccia typically consists of high-gluten flour, oil, water, sugar, salt and yeast.
   • 2001, Eve Zibart, The Ethnic Food Lover's Companion, page 47

     The same dough can be used for bread, rolls, breadsticks, bruschetta, focaccia, calzone, or pizza. The only practical difference between pizza and focaccia is the thickness of the crust: Traditional pizza crust is thin, and something an inch or two thick […] is more like focaccia.

2. (countable) A sandwich made with this type of bread.

Further reading

• focaccia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *focācia, from the feminine form of focācius (“of the hearth, baked on a fire”) (compare Spanish hogaza, Portuguese fogaça, Catalan fogassa, Occitan fogaça, fogassa, French fougasse, fouace, Ligurian fugassa), from Latin focus (“hearth, fireplace”). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian pogača (“unleavened bread”).

Noun

focaccia f (plural focacce)

1. focaccia
2. a type of cake

Related terms

• fuoco

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian focaccia. Doublet of hogaza.

Noun

focaccia f (plural focaccias)

1. focaccia