LATTE
What does "LATTE" mean?
A coffee drink made with espresso and a large amount of steamed milk.
Meanings
- A drink of espresso topped with steamed, lightly foamed milk. She ordered an oat-milk latte with an extra shot.
- A flavored milk-based hot drink modeled on the coffee version. The cafe's pumpkin-spice latte appears the moment leaves start turning. informal
Did you know?
- Order a 'latte' in Italy and you may get a glass of plain milk - in Italian the word just means 'milk', and the coffee is properly a 'caffe latte'.
Word origin
Shortened from Italian 'caffe latte', literally 'milk coffee', from Latin 'lac' (milk); 'latte' alone means simply 'milk' in Italian.
Remember it
LATTE = milk in Italian; the double-T pours like the two streams of espresso and steamed milk meeting.
A little poem
White milk falls through brown-
a leaf blooms on the surface,
drawn to be drunk down.
haiku
Wordplay
- I asked the barista why my coffee was so expensive. She said it was a latte money.
What it teaches
Sometimes the foreign word you borrow means something plainer at home than the luxury you make of it.
Quick facts
What does LATTE mean?
A coffee drink made with espresso and a large amount of steamed milk.
Is LATTE a valid word?
Yes — LATTE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is LATTE?
LATTE has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does LATTE come from?
Shortened from Italian 'caffe latte', literally 'milk coffee', from Latin 'lac' (milk); 'latte' alone means simply 'milk' in Italian.
What can LATTE teach us?
Sometimes the foreign word you borrow means something plainer at home than the luxury you make of it.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.