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Pizza

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a baked dish of flattened bread topped with sauce, cheese, and other toppings
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pizza
Italian · medieval
"flatbread"
possibly from Lombardic "bizzo" (bite) or Greek "pitta" (flatbread)
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pizza
English · 1800s-1900s
"a flatbread topped dish"
brought to the US by Italian immigrants
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