Editing Tonkatsu (section)

== Etymology ==
The word ''tonkatsu'' is a combination of the Sino-Japanese word ''ton'' ({{lang|ja|豚}}) meaning "pig", and ''katsu'' ({{lang|ja|カツ}}), which is a shortened form of ''katsuretsu'' ({{lang|ja|カツレツ}}),<ref name="NKD_Tonkatsu">{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Tonkatsu|script-title=ja:豚カツ|encyclopedia=[[Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]] Concise edition, web version (精選版 日本国語大辞典)|publisher=Shogakukan|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E8%B1%9A%E3%82%AB%E3%83%84-586629|access-date=2023-10-22|via=kotobank.jp|language=ja|trans-quote="katsu" is a contraction of カツレツ ("katsuretsu").}}</ref> an old transliteration of the English word "[[cutlet]]",<ref name="NKD_Katsuretsu">{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Katsuretsu|script-title=ja:カツレツ|encyclopedia=[[Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]] Concise edition, web version (精選版 日本国語大辞典)|publisher=Shogakukan|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%84%E3%83%AC%E3%83%84-45433|access-date=2021-08-16|via=kotobank.jp|language=ja|trans-title=cutlet|trans-quote=cutlet {{interp|... shortened form is}} "katsu".}}</ref><ref name="Shinshu1934">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=katsuretsu |script-title=ja:カツレツ |encyclopedia=新修百科大辭典 |publisher=[[Hakubunkan]] |location=Tokyo, Japan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zG3Ln3xqcxwC&q=%E3%82%AB%E3%83%84%E3%83%AC%E3%83%84&pg=PP320 |via=Google Books |date=1934-04-14 |orig-date=1934-04-05 |at=p262 row 4 |language=ja |trans-quote=From English word "Cutlet" (sliced meat), {{Interp|...}}. Also shortened to カツ ("katsu").}}</ref> which was in turn adopted from the [[French language|French]] word {{lang|fr|côtelette}}.<ref name="OED1933_cutlet">{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Cutlet|encyclopedia=[[OED]]|year=1933|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.271839/page/n1297/mode/1up|via=[[Internet Archive]]|publisher=The Clarendon Press |publication-place=Oxford, UK|edition=1 Corrected re-issue|volume=2 C|page=1293|language=en}}</ref>