focaccia

English

Focaccia bread with rosemary garnish.

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fəˈkætʃə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /foʊˈkɑtʃə/, /fəˈkɑtʃə/, /fəˈkɑtʃi.ə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: (UK) -ætʃə, (US) -ɑːtʃə

Noun

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

• focaccia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• foccacia

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian focaccia.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: fo‧cac‧cia

Noun

focaccia m (plural focaccia's)

1. focaccia

Italian

Alternative forms

• cofaccia (obsolete, colloquial, Tuscan)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

focaccia f (plural focacce)

1. focaccia

   Synonym: (Toscana) schiacciata

2. a type of cake

Related terms

• fuoco

Descendants

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

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /foˈkat͡ʃa/ [foˈka.t͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -atʃa

Noun

focaccia f (plural focaccias)

1. focaccia

Usage notes

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.