Latte

/laˈteɪ/ noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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. 3
    strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk wordnet
  4. 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. 5
    Affluent leftism. attributive, countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable

    "latte liberal"

Synonyms

All synonyms
cafe lattecafe lattécaffe lattecaffè lattecoffee lattécoffee with milk

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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