different between ciabatta vs focaccia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ciabatta (“slipper, bread”). Doublet of sabot.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /t???b??.ta/
• Hyphenation: cia?bat?ta

Noun

ciabatta (plural ciabattas or ciabatte)

1. A broad, flat, white Italian bread.
   • 2011, Caroline Bretherton, Illustrated Step-by-Step Baking, page 426

     Don't waste day-old ciabatta; slice it and bake the slices to make crostini, which will keep for days and can be used for snacks, canapés, or croutons.

Coordinate terms

• focaccia

Translations

See also

• panino
• Ciabatta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ciabatta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??b?t??/, [?t???b?t???]

Noun

ciabatta

1. ciabatta bread

Italian

Etymology

Of unknown origin shared with Spanish zapato and French sabot and savate. Possibly from Tatar ?????? (çabata, “overshoes”), ultimately either from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (çaput, çap?t, “patchwork, tatters”), from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (çapmak, “to slap on”), or of Iranian origin, cognate with modern Persian ???? (?apat, “a kind of traditional leather shoe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??a?bat.ta/

Noun

ciabatta f (plural ciabatte)

1. slipper, thong, mule

   Synonym: pantofola

   • 1981 Gregòrio Bezerra, "I Giorni Dell Oppressione Memorie (1900-1945)"

2. (cooking) ciabatta (flat bread)
   • 2004 Giunti, A. V., "Voglia di Cucinare Pane, pizze, focacce e torte salate"

3. power strip (block of electrical sockets)

   Synonym: multipresa

Coordinate terms

• focaccia

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? English: ciabatta
• ? German: Ciabatta
• ? Spanish: chapata
  • ? Portuguese: chapata

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 poga?a (“unleavened bread”). Doublet of fougasse.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??kæ.t??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /fo??k?.t??/, /f??k?.t??/, /f??k?.t?i.?/

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.
   • 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

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *foc?cia, from the feminine form of foc?cius (“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 poga?a (“unleavened bread”). Doublet of fugassa.

Noun

focaccia f (plural focacce)

1. focaccia

   Synonym: (Toscana) schiacciata

2. 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)

1. focaccia