Porkchop
/ˈpɔːrk.tʃɑːp/noun
A chop cut from the loin of a pig.
Did you know?The pork in porkchop comes from Old French porc, ultimately from Latin porcus, a root so old it also lives in words like porcine and porker.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*porko-
“young pig, piglet”
Latin
Latin
porcus
“pig”
Old French
OF
porc
“pig, pork”
Middle English
English
pork
“the flesh of a pig”
18th Century
English
pork chop
“a chop cut from the pig”