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As an Italian, I've never heard anyone use "pizza" as a synonym for pie, which is "torta".
by frabert 8y ago
As an Italian, I've never heard anyone use "pizza" as a synonym for pie, which is "torta".
- azhenley 8y agoUhoh, I always thought torta was a sandwich. That is what I order from a local Mexican restaurant... The joy of overloaded words.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoCan't say I've ever bothered to look up pizza in a dictionary before, but here we are. dictionary.com has this to say about the word pizza: a flat, open-faced baked pie of Italian origin, consisting of a thin layer of bread dough topped with spiced tomato sauce and cheese, often garnished with anchovies, sausage slices, mushrooms, etc. And the dictionary that comes with MacOS claims the origin of the word pizza is Italian, litterally 'pie'. <shrug>
- riquito 8y agoNeither do I, or anyone I know of. Pizza meant "pie" originally, at least until 1700, but that meaning has long gone. If the american translation is old enough it did have a point