/ˈlɑːteɪ/, /laˈteɪ/
OriginEllipsis of caffè latte, from Italian caffè (“coffee”) + latte (“milk”) (faster spelling of caffè (coffe) + e (and) + latte (milk)), ultimately from Latin lac, lactis.
- countable, uncountableA drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam.
“Lilian Benedict walked into the office carrying two cups of latte.”
“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 gener”
“High-priced lattes and customized drinks helped lift the coffee chain’s US sales in the quarter ending on October 1, the company said Thursday.”
- broadly, countable, uncountableA similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea).
- attributive, countable, figuratively, informal, uncountableAffluent leftism.
“latte liberal”
“Newt Gingrich accused New York mayor Bill De Blasio of “small soy latte liberalism” in 2014 – emphasising that the only thing more girlish than drinking a big dairy milky coffee was drinking a small v”
- 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.
Formslattes(plural) · latté(alternative, nonstandard)