| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| focaccia |
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| SYLLABICATION: | fo·cac·ci·a |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f -kä ch -, -ch, f - |
| NOUN: | A flat Italian bread traditionally flavored with olive oil and salt and often topped with herbs, onions, or other items. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Italian, hearth-cake, from Vulgar Latin *foc cea, from variant of Late Latin foccia, of the hearth, feminine of foccius, from Latin focus, hearth.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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