Meanings
plural pissaladières · alternative pissaladiere
- countableuncountableA pie from southern France, similar to pizza, without tomatoes or cheese, usually topped with onions, anchovies and black olives.
“You never ate pissaladière, did you? It’s just as good as pizza, you’ll see. Some people like it even better.”
1980, Robert Beauvais, translated by Harold J. Salemson, The Half Jew, New York, N.Y.: Taplinger Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 23
Origin
- Provençalpissaladiera
- Frenchpissaladière
- Englishpissaladière
Borrowed from French pissaladière, in turn borrowed from Niçard Provençal pissaladiera, from pissalat (an anchovy-based condiment), from peis salat (“salted fish”), suffixed with -iera.
More words from French, Provençal
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan pissaladiera
- pissaladierapizza-like pie from southern France
Chinese Mandarin 尼斯洋蔥塔 /尼斯洋葱塔
- 尼斯洋蔥塔 /尼斯洋葱塔 (Nísī yángcōng tǎ)pizza-like pie from southern France
French pissaladière
- pissaladièrepizza-like pie from southern France
German Pissaladière
- Pissaladièrepizza-like pie from southern France
Greek πισαλαντιέρ
- πισαλαντιέρ (pisalantiér)pizza-like pie from southern France
Hebrew פִיסָלָדִיֶּר, פִיסָאלָאדִיֶּר
- פִיסָלָדִיֶּרpizza-like pie from southern France
- פִיסָאלָאדִיֶּר (pisaladiyér)pizza-like pie from southern France
Italian pissaladière, piscialandrea
- pissaladièrepizza-like pie from southern France
- piscialandreapizza-like pie from southern France
- pizza d'Andreapizza-like pie from southern France
Japanese ピサラディエール
- ピサラディエール (pisaradiēru)pizza-like pie from southern France
Korean 피살라디에르
- 피살라디에르 (pisalladiereu)pizza-like pie from southern France
Russian писсаладье́р
- писсаладье́р (pissaladʹjér)pizza-like pie from southern France
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with pissaladière
Cite this entry
pissaladière. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pissaladi%C3%A8re
“pissaladière.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pissaladi%C3%A8re. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pissaladière,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pissaladi%C3%A8re.
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