focaccia

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English

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Focaccia bread with rosemary garnish.

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Italian focaccia, from Late Latin focācium (via its plural focācia), derived from Latin focus (hearth). Doublet of fougasse and pagash. Cognate with Sicilian fugazza, Serbo-Croatian pogača (unleavened bread).

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Noun

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focaccia (countable and uncountable, plural focaccias)

  1. (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.
  2. (countable) A sandwich made with this type of bread.

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Italian focaccia.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: fo‧cac‧cia

Noun

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focaccia m (plural focaccia's)

  1. focaccia

Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Late Latin focācium (via its plural focācia), derived from Latin focus (hearth). Doublet of fugassa. Compare Sicilian fugazza.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /foˈkat.t͡ʃa/
  • Rhymes: -attʃa
  • Hyphenation: fo‧càc‧cia

Noun

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focaccia f (plural focacce)

  1. focaccia
    Synonym: (Toscana) schiacciata
  2. a type of cake
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Descendants

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  • English: focaccia
  • Lithuanian: fokačija
  • Sardinian: covazza
  • Spanish: focaccia

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Italian focaccia, from Late Latin focācium (via its plural focācia), derived from Latin focus (hearth). Doublet of hogaza and fougasse.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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focaccia f (plural focaccias)

  1. focaccia

Usage notes

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.