focaccia
English
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”). Doublet of fougasse and pagash.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fəˈkæ.tʃə/
- (US) IPA(key): /foʊˈkɑ.t͡ʃə/, /fəˈkɑ.t͡ʃə/, /fəˈkɑ.t͡ʃi.ə/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
focaccia (countable and uncountable, plural focaccias)
- (uncountable) A flatbread 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.
- Synonym: focaccia bread
- 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.
- (countable) A sandwich made with this type of bread.
Further reading
focaccia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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”). Doublet of fugassa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /foˈkat.t͡ʃa/
- Rhymes: -attʃa
- Hyphenation: fo‧càc‧cia
Noun
focaccia f (plural focacce)
- focaccia
- Synonym: (Toscana) schiacciata
- a type of cake
Related terms
- fuoco
Descendants
- → English: focaccia
- → Spanish: focaccia
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian focaccia. Doublet of hogaza and fougasse.
Noun
focaccia f (plural focaccias)
- focaccia