pizzaの意味・使い方・発音

pizza

英 ['piːtsə; 'pɪtsə] 美 ['pitsə]

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イタリア語のピザ、ペストリー、パイから、語源は不明。ギリシャ語のpitta（菓子）、pie（パイ）、peptos（焼いた）、PIE*pekw（焼いた、調理した、揚げた）に由来する可能性があり、語源はcook、peptic、pittaと同じ。

pizza: pizza: [20] Italian pizza is quite a broad term, signifying ‘cake’, ‘tart’ or ‘pie’ and encompassing dishes as diverse as a closed fruit pie and a flat bread-dough base with a topping. It is the latter, of course, that brought the word into English. At first, both the word and the foodstuff were unfamiliar enough for the tautologous name ‘pizza pie’ to be deemed necessary, but the fast-food revolution from the 1960s onwards has thoroughly naturalized pizza (US fast-food outlets have their own abbreviation, za).

The origin of the Italian word is uncertain. It has been linked with Vulgar Latin *picea, a derivative of Latin pyx ‘pitch’ (in which case it would be paralleled by Welsh bara pyglyd, literally ‘pitchy bread’, possibly a reference to its colour, from which English gets pikelet [18], the name of a type of tea-cake), but it could also be related to modern Greek pitta (source of English pitta [20]), which may be a descendant of classical Greek peptos ‘cooked’.
pizza (n.): 1935, from Italian pizza, originally "cake, tart, pie," of uncertain origin. The 1907 "Vocabolario Etimologico della Lingua Italiana" reports it is said to be from dialectal pinza "clamp" (from Latin pinsere "to pound, stamp"). Klein suggests a connection via loan-translation with Medieval Greek pitta "cake, pie," from Greek pitta "pitch" (cognate with Latin adjective piceus "of pitch"). See also pita.

1. The pizza base retains its crispness without becoming brittle.: ピザの生地は依然としてカリカリしていて、割れやすいものにもなっていない。

2.To save time we used packets of pizza dough mix.: 時間を節約するために、ピザのミックス小麦粉を何パックか使いました。

3.A real pizza oven gives better results than ordinary home oven.: 専用のピザオーブンは、通常の家庭用オーブンよりも効果的です。

4.There was still plenty of time to take Jill out for pizza .: ジルを連れてピザを食べる余裕がある。

5.Let 's send out for a pizza and watch The Late Show.: テイクアウトピザを呼んで『ナイトショー』を見ましょう。