latte
English
editEtymology 1
editAbbreviation of caffè latte, from Italian caffè (“coffee”) + latte (“milk”), from Latin lac, lactis.
Alternative forms
edit- latté (nonstandard)
Pronunciation
edit- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈlɑ.teɪ/, /ˈlæ.teɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (Hong Kong) IPA(key): /laˈteɪ/
- Rhymes: -æteɪ, -ɑːteɪ
Noun
editlatte (countable and uncountable, plural lattes)
- 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.
- A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea).
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Etymology 2
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈlæti/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editlatte (plural lattes)
- 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.
Anagrams
editAfrikaans
editNoun
editlatte
Finnish
editEtymology
editFrom Italian (caffè) latte, probably through English latte.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlatte
Declension
editInflection of latte (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | latte | lattet | |
genitive | latten | lattejen | |
partitive | lattea | latteja | |
illative | latteen | latteihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | latte | lattet | |
accusative | nom. | latte | lattet |
gen. | latten | ||
genitive | latten | lattejen lattein rare | |
partitive | lattea | latteja | |
inessive | lattessa | latteissa | |
elative | lattesta | latteista | |
illative | latteen | latteihin | |
adessive | lattella | latteilla | |
ablative | lattelta | latteilta | |
allative | lattelle | latteille | |
essive | lattena | latteina | |
translative | latteksi | latteiksi | |
abessive | lattetta | latteitta | |
instructive | — | lattein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Inflection of latte (Kotus type 8*C/nalle, tt-t gradation) | |||
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nominative | latte | latet | |
genitive | laten | lattejen | |
partitive | lattea | latteja | |
illative | latteen | latteihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | latte | latet | |
accusative | nom. | latte | latet |
gen. | laten | ||
genitive | laten | lattejen lattein rare | |
partitive | lattea | latteja | |
inessive | latessa | lateissa | |
elative | latesta | lateista | |
illative | latteen | latteihin | |
adessive | latella | lateilla | |
ablative | latelta | lateilta | |
allative | latelle | lateille | |
essive | lattena | latteina | |
translative | lateksi | lateiksi | |
abessive | latetta | lateitta | |
instructive | — | latein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading
edit- “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
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited 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.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlatte f (plural lattes)
- lath
- slat
- ruler (Belgium) (measuring device)
- (slang) shoe; foot
- (slang) hit, puff
- (colloquial) ski
- (nautical) batten
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “latte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Late Latin lactem, from Latin lac.
Noun
editlatte m (countable and uncountable, plural latti, diminutive-endearing lattùccio or latticèllo)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editSee also
editEtymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
editlatte
Anagrams
editNeapolitan
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin lactem, from Latin lac.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlatte m
References
edit- 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
Norman
editEtymology
editFrom Old French latte, late, from a Germanic source, probably Frankish *latta.
Noun
editlatte f (plural lattes)
Polish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Italian latte.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlatte n or f (indeclinable)
- (colloquial) caffè latte (espresso coffee with steamed milk)
- Synonym: caffè latte
Adjective
editlatte (not comparable, no derived adverb)
- latte (color)
- Synonym: jasnobeżowy
Further reading
editSardinian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin lactem, from Latin lac.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlatte m (plural lattes)
- English terms borrowed from Italian
- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/æteɪ
- Rhymes:English/æteɪ/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɑːteɪ
- Rhymes:English/ɑːteɪ/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English heteronyms
- en:Coffee
- en:Tea
- Afrikaans non-lemma forms
- Afrikaans noun forms
- Finnish terms derived from Italian
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑtːe
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑtːe/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish nalle-type nominals
- fi:Coffee
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Germanic languages
- French terms derived from Frankish
- French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French slang
- French colloquialisms
- fr:Nautical
- fr:Measuring instruments
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Italian terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Italian/atte
- Rhymes:Italian/atte/2 syllables
- Italian terms inherited from Late Latin
- Italian terms derived from Late Latin
- Italian terms inherited from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian uncountable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian noun forms
- it:Beverages
- Neapolitan terms inherited from Late Latin
- Neapolitan terms derived from Late Latin
- Neapolitan terms inherited from Latin
- Neapolitan terms derived from Latin
- Neapolitan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Neapolitan lemmas
- Neapolitan nouns
- Neapolitan masculine nouns
- Norman terms inherited from Old French
- Norman terms derived from Old French
- Norman terms derived from Germanic languages
- Norman terms derived from Frankish
- Norman lemmas
- Norman nouns
- Norman feminine nouns
- Jersey Norman
- Polish terms derived from Latin
- Polish terms borrowed from Italian
- Polish unadapted borrowings from Italian
- Polish terms derived from Italian
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/atɛ
- Rhymes:Polish/atɛ/2 syllables
- Polish terms with homophones
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish indeclinable nouns
- Polish neuter nouns
- Polish feminine nouns
- Polish nouns with multiple genders
- Polish colloquialisms
- Polish adjectives
- Polish uncomparable adjectives
- pl:Coffee
- pl:Colors
- Sardinian terms inherited from Late Latin
- Sardinian terms derived from Late Latin
- Sardinian terms inherited from Latin
- Sardinian terms derived from Latin
- Sardinian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Sardinian lemmas
- Sardinian nouns
- Sardinian masculine nouns
- sc:Beverages