Where does “pisa” come from?

pisa (Tagalog) comes from English pizza, from Italian pizza, from Neapolitan pizza, from Byzantine Greek πίτα — cake, pie; pie; Alternative form of πίττα , Attic...

pisa (Tagalog): crushed; pressed; compressed; squeezed; flattened by physical pressure or weight of something heavy

Definitions

  1. crushed; pressed; compressed; squeezed; flattened by physical pressure or weight of something heavy

Ancestry of “pisa”, step by step

pisa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English pizza

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpizzaA baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread...
2Italianpizzapizza; reel; something very monotonous and...
3Neapolitanpizzapizza
4Byzantine Greekπίταcake, pie; pie; Alternative form of πίττα , Attic...

via Spanish pisar

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishpisarto step; to walk; to tread; to step on; to walk...
2Vulgar Latinpisare—
3Latinpinserepresent active infinitive of pīnsō; second-person...
Every word from Byzantine Greek πίτα →