latte

Abbreviation of caffè latte, from Italian caffè (“coffee”) + latte (“milk”), from Latin lac, lactis.

• latté (nonstandard)

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ.teɪ/, /ˈlæ.teɪ/
• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /laˈtʰeɪ/
• Rhymes: -æteɪ, -ɑːteɪ

latte (plural lattes)

1. A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam.
   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

     Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […].  In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.

2. A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea).

• caffe latte
• cafe latté
• coffee latté

latte (plural lattes)

1. A pillar capped by a hemispherical stone capital with the flat side facing up, used as building supports by the ancient Chamorro people and now used as a sign of Chamorro identity.

• attle

Borrowed from English latte, Italian (caffè) latte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑtːe/, [ˈlɑt̪ːe̞]

latte

1. latte

• eltta

From Middle French latte, from Old French latte, late, from a Germanic source, probably Frankish *latta; see also German Latte, Dutch lat, and English lath and lattice.

• IPA^(key): /lat/

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latte f (plural lattes)

1. lath
2. slat
3. ruler (measuring device)
4. (slang) shoe; foot
5. (slang) hit, puff
6. (colloquial) ski
7. (nautical) batten

• “latte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlat.te/, [ˈl̺ät̪t̪e̞]

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• Rhymes: -atte
• Hyphenation: làt‧te

From Vulgar Latin lactem (“milk”, masculine or feminine accusative), from Latin lac (“milk”, neuter), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵlákts. Compare Catalan llet, Esperanto lakto, French lait, Friulian lat, Interlingua lacte, Galician leite, Portuguese leite, Romanian lapte, Spanish leche.

latte m (uncountable)

1. milk

• colostro

See the etymology of the main entry.

latte

1. plural of latta

• letta

• IPA^(key): /ˈlatːə/

latte n

1. milk

From Old French latte, late, from a Germanic source, probably Frankish *latta

latte f (plural lattes)

1. (Jersey) lath