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pizzaiolo (peet-suh-YOH-loh) - n., a pizzamaker.
Yes, there's a word for it -- one common enough it's in many dictionaries. Taken around 1930 from Italian pizzaiolo, a maker and seller of pizzas, which was coined (probably in Naples or at least Neapolitan dialect) from pizza + -aiolo, a suffix of occupation (as well as "pertaining to"), from Latin -āriolus, diminutive of -ārius, an adjectival suffix. Here's an 1830 lithograph of a pizzaiolo:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
---L.
Yes, there's a word for it -- one common enough it's in many dictionaries. Taken around 1930 from Italian pizzaiolo, a maker and seller of pizzas, which was coined (probably in Naples or at least Neapolitan dialect) from pizza + -aiolo, a suffix of occupation (as well as "pertaining to"), from Latin -āriolus, diminutive of -ārius, an adjectival suffix. Here's an 1830 lithograph of a pizzaiolo:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
---L.
