slice
n. countablen. a thin, flat piece of food that you cut from a larger portion. You use this word for things like bread, cake, or pizza.
n. a thin, flat piece cut from a larger whole. Often used with 'of' to specify the substance being divided.
I would like a thin slice of bread.
She cut a generous slice of chocolate cake for each guest at the party.
The chef demonstrated how to cut a uniform slice of salmon, ensuring that each portion would cook at the same rate during the searing process.
From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīȥan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit.