latte

 

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latte

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

• latté (nonstandard)

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ.teɪ/, /ˈlæ.teɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /laˈteɪ/
• Rhymes: -æteɪ, -ɑːteɪ

latte (countable and uncountable, plural lattes)

1. A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam.
   • 1991, Jayne Ann Krentz, chapter 12, in Sweet Fortune, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 208:

     Lilian Benedict walked into the office carrying two cups of latte.

   • 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).

• caffè latte
• cafe latté
• coffee latté

 

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Latte stone

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• IPA^(key): /ˈlæti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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

latte

1. plural of lat

From Italian (caffè) latte, probably through English latte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑtːe/, [ˈlɑ̝t̪ːe̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑtːe
• Hyphenation^(key): lat‧te

latte

1. latte

• “latte”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• eltta, telta

Inherited from Middle French latte, from Old French latte, late, from a Germanic source, probably Frankish *latta, from Proto-Germanic *lattō. See also German Latte, Dutch lat, and English lath and lattice.

• IPA^(key): /lat/

• Audio:

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latte f (plural lattes)

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

• → Ottoman Turkish: لاطه (lata)
  • Turkish: lata
  • → Armenian: լաթա (latʻa)

• “latte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

 

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

latte

Wikipedia ^it

• IPA^(key): /ˈlat.te/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -atte
• Hyphenation: làt‧te

From Late Latin lactem.

latte m (countable and uncountable, plural latti, diminutive-endearing lattùccio or latticèllo)

1. milk

• colostro

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

latte

1. plural of latta

• Letta, letta

From Late Latin lactem, from Latin lac.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlattə/

latte m

1. milk

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1201: “colare il latte” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

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

latte f (plural lattes)

1. (Jersey) lath

 

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

latte

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Unadapted borrowing from Italian latte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.tɛ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -atɛ
• Syllabification: la‧tte
• Homophone: Latę

latte n or f (indeclinable)

1. (colloquial) caffè latte (espresso coffee with steamed milk)

   Synonym: caffè latte

latte (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. latte (color)

   Synonym: jasnobeżowy

• latte I in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• latte II in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• latte in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• latti (Campidanese)

From Late Latin lactem, from Latin lac.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlatte/

latte m (plural lattes)

1. milk