latte
A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foamA drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam.
» Tom drank a latte.
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam.
strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk
(broadly, countable, uncountable)A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea).
matcha latte
(attributive, countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable)Affluent leftism.
latte liberal
Milchkaffee, Café au Lait, Caffè Latte
ла́ттеlátte, ко́фе-ла́ттеkófe-látte
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.
Examples
12 sentencesTom drank a latte.
Tom learned how to make latte art.
deTom hat gelernt, Bildchen auf Kaffee zu malen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom practices making latte art every day.
My favourite thing to drink is latte.
deIch trinke am allerliebsten Milchkaffee. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
We tried their specialty latte and loved it.
Translations
8 languagesOrigin
Ellipsis of caffè latte, from Italian caffellatte, ultimately from Latin lac, lactis.Ellipsis of caffè latte, from Italian caffellatte, ultimately from Latin lac, lactis.
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Forms
plural: lattesSynonyms
4 synonyms- strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk:caffe latte
Word family
13 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.