different between cortado vs macchiato

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cortado (“cut”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k???t?do?/

Noun

cortado (plural cortados)

1. a cup of espresso served with warm milk

Translations

Anagrams

• cat door

Portuguese

Etymology

Past participle of cortar.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku?.?ta.ðu/
• Hyphenation: cor?ta?do

Adjective

cortado m (feminine singular cortada, masculine plural cortados, feminine plural cortadas, comparable)

1. cut
2. chopped

Verb

cortado (feminine singular cortada, masculine plural cortados, feminine plural cortadas)

1. masculine singular past participle of cortar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko??tado/, [ko??t?a.ð?o]

Adjective

cortado (feminine cortada, masculine plural cortados, feminine plural cortadas)

1. (said of a writing style) choppy, disconnected
2. chopped
3. adjusted, proportioned
4. thickened, coagulated
5. shy
6. (heraldry) divided into two equal parts horizontally, per fess

   Synonym: proporcionado

Noun

cortado m (plural cortados)

1. a coffee or espresso with a small amount of warm milk added

   Synonyms: cortadito, (Venezuela) marrón

Derived terms

• cortadito (diminutive)

Verb

cortado m (feminine singular cortada, masculine plural cortados, feminine plural cortadas)

1. Masculine singular past participle of cortar.

Further reading

• “cortado” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• cortado on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

English

Etymology

From Italian caffè macchiato (“stained coffee”), from macchiato (“stained, marked”), as the coffee is “marked” with a spot of milk. From Latin macul?tus (“stained”), form of macula (“stain”).Cognate to English macula (“[dark] spot”), French maculé.

Noun

macchiato (plural macchiatos)

1. Espresso topped with steamed milk.

Synonyms

• caffè macchiato
• espresso macchiato

Related terms

• latte macchiato

Translations

See also

• coffee
• cortado

Further reading

• Caffè macchiato on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Latte macchiato on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Adjective

macchiato (feminine macchiata, masculine plural macchiati, feminine plural macchiate)

1. stained
2. (of the skin of an animal) spotted

Derived terms

• caffè macchiato

Verb

macchiato m (feminine singular macchiata, masculine plural macchiati, feminine plural macchiate)

1. past participle of macchiare
2. past participle of macchiarsi