The story
- Japanese · derived from型“style, pattern”
- English todaygun kata
Compound of gun + kata (“martial art movements”), from Japanese 型 (kata, “style, pattern”). Attested from, and possibly coined around 2003 for the film Equilibrium (see quotation below).
Words from the same roots
Japanese型 all →
kata
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.