Schnitzel

Etymology
From. Pertaining to. The culinary sense spread from Austria and was therefore adopted in the regional neuter gender.

Noun

 * 1) scrap small piece of paper, etc.

Usage notes

 * The neuter gender is chiefly used for the dish. The masculine gender is used for scraps of material (e.g. wood, paper).

Noun

 * 1) cutlet slice of filet meat

Usage notes

 * German Schnitzel is not the same as 🇨🇬, which is generally taken to be a breaded cutlet. Although this form of preparation is rather common in German-speaking countries, it is by no means definitive of Schnitzel.
 * Given the general meaning of the word, the idea that “Schnitzel” is a dish typical of German/Austrian cuisine is unknown to these countries (or has, at most, recently been introduced from the Anglophone world).
 * In Switzerland the term Pläzli is used for cutlet and the breaded cutlet meaning is most often associated with English schnitzel.