Latte
//laˈteɪ// noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam. countable, uncountable
"Lilian Benedict walked into the office carrying two cups of latte."
- 2 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.
- 3 strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk wordnet
- 4 A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea). broadly, countable, uncountable
"matcha latte"
- 5 Affluent leftism. attributive, countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable
"latte liberal"
Example
More examples"Fior di latte is mozzarella that's made from cow's milk."
Etymology
Ellipsis of caffè latte, from Italian caffè (“coffee”) + latte (“milk”) (faster spelling of caffè (coffe) + e (and) + latte (milk)), ultimately from Latin lac, lactis.
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