sentences:  The first mention of the word in English cited in the Oxford English Dictionary was in 1936.The English word is borrowed from Modern Greek πίτα, in turn from the Byzantine Greek πίτα "bread, cake, pie, pitta" (attested in 1108) and possibly from the Ancient Greek πίττα or πίσσα "pitch/resin" (for the gloss), or Ancient Greek πικτή ("pikte"), "fermented pastry", which may have passed to Latin as "picta" cf.pizza.