Latte
/ˈlæt.eɪ/noun
A coffee drink made with espresso and steamed milk.
Did you know?The café drink became popular in English only after borrowing the Italian phrase caffè latte, where latte simply means “milk,” from Latin lac/lactis.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*glā̆- / *melg-
“Roots associated with milk and milking in early Indo-European languages”
Latin
Latin
lacte
“milk (oblique form of lac)”
Italian
Italian
latte
“milk”
19th Century
English
caffè latte
“coffee with milk”
20th Century
English
latte
“a milk-based espresso drink”