latte
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Abbreviation 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 edit
latte (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 edit
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Noun edit
latte (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.
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Afrikaans edit
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latte
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Italian (caffè) latte, probably through English latte.
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latte
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Inflection 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
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French edit
Etymology edit
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.
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Noun edit
latte f (plural lattes)
- lath
- slat
- ruler (Belgium) (measuring device)
- (slang) shoe; foot
- (slang) hit, puff
- (colloquial) ski
- (nautical) batten
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “latte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Late Latin lactem, from Latin lac.
Noun edit
latte m (countable and uncountable, plural latti, diminutive-endearing lattùccio or latticèllo)
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Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
latte
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Neapolitan edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin lactem, from Latin lac.
Pronunciation edit
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latte 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 edit
Etymology edit
From Old French latte, late, from a Germanic source, probably Frankish *latta.
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latte f (plural lattes)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Italian latte.
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latte n or f (indeclinable)
- (colloquial) caffè latte (espresso coffee with steamed milk)
- Synonym: caffè latte
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latte (not comparable, no derived adverb)
- latte (color)
- Synonym: jasnobeżowy
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Sardinian edit
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Etymology edit
From Late Latin lactem, from Latin lac.
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latte m (plural lattes)
- English terms borrowed from Italian
- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/æteɪ
- Rhymes:English/æteɪ/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɑːteɪ
- Rhymes:English/ɑːteɪ/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
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- en:Coffee
- en:Tea
- Afrikaans non-lemma forms
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- Finnish terms derived from Italian
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
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- Finnish 2-syllable words
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- 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
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- fr:Nautical
- fr:Measuring instruments
- Italian 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/atte
- Rhymes:Italian/atte/2 syllables
- Italian terms inherited from Late Latin
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- it:Beverages
- Neapolitan terms inherited from Late Latin
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- Norman terms inherited from Old French
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- Jersey Norman
- Polish terms derived from Latin
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- Rhymes:Polish/atɛ
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- pl:Coffee
- pl:Colors
- Sardinian terms inherited from Late Latin
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- sc:Beverages