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• latté (nonstandard)

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈlɑː.teɪ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈlɑ.teɪ/
• (Hong Kong) IPA: /laˈteɪ/
• 韻: -æteɪ, -ɑːteɪ

名詞

latte (countable and uncountable, plural lattes)

1. A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam.

   Synonyms: caffè latte, cafe latté, coffee latté

   Coordinate terms: cafe au lait, flat white

   • 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, archived from the original on 4 August 2020, 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.

   • 2023 November 2, Danielle Wiener-Bronner, “Starbucks is leaning into its sugary concoctions to boost the business”, in CNN Business‎:

     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.

   • 2024 February 20, Jessie Yeung and Hassan Tayir, “Pork flavored coffee is Starbucks’ newest China pitch”, in CNN Business‎:

     Photos of the drink, posted on Chinese social media platform Weibo by the Shanghai Starbucks Reserve Roastery, show a drizzle of dark red sauce atop the latte foam — with a square slice of pork on a skewer resting on the mug rim.

2. (by extension) A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea).

   matcha latte

3. (figurative, informal, attributive) Affluent leftism.

   latte liberal

   • 2025 September 4, Sam Wolfson, quoting Newt Gingrich, “Latte-swilling ‘performative males’: why milky drinks are shorthand for liberal”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     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 vegan milky coffee.

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発音

• IPA: /ˈlæ.ti/

名詞

latte (plural lattes)

1. 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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• attle

Further reading

• Category:latte on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons