focaccia

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• A sandwich made with this type of bread.

Origin

• Borrowed from Italian focaccia, diminutive form of fuoco, from Latin focus ("fireplace"), or through a Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *focacia. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian pogača ("unleavened bread"). fougasse and pagash.