different between latte vs lotte

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of caffè latte, from Italian caffè (“coffee”) + latte (“milk”), from Latin lac, lactis.

Alternative forms

• latté (nonstandard)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?l?.te?/, /?læ.te?/
• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /la?t?e?/
• Rhymes: -æte?, -??te?

Noun

latte (plural lattes)

1. A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam.
2. A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea).

Synonyms

• caffè latte
• cafe latté
• coffee latté

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• attle

Afrikaans

Noun

latte

1. plural of lat

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English latte, Italian (caffè) latte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?t?e/, [?l?t??e?]
• Rhymes: -?t?e
• Syllabification: lat?te

Noun

latte

1. latte

Declension

Anagrams

• eltta

French

Etymology

From Middle French latte, from Old French latte, late, from a Germanic source, probably Frankish *latta, from Proto-Germanic *latt?. See also German Latte, Dutch lat, and English lath and lattice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lat/

Noun

latte f (plural lattes)

1. lath
2. slat
3. ruler (measuring device)
4. (slang) shoe; foot
5. (slang) hit, puff
6. (colloquial) ski
7. (nautical) batten

Further reading

• “latte” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lat.te/
• Rhymes: -atte
• Hyphenation: làt?te

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin lactem (“milk”, masculine or feminine accusative), from Latin lac (“milk”, neuter), from Proto-Indo-European *?lákts. Compare Catalan llet, Esperanto lakto, French lait, Friulian lat, Interlingua lacte, Galician leite, Piedmontese làit, Portuguese leite, Romanian lapte, Spanish leche.

Noun

latte m (countable and uncountable, plural latti)

1. milk

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

• colostro

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

latte

1. plural of latta

Anagrams

• letta

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lat??/

Noun

latte n

1. milk

Norman

Etymology

From Old French latte, late, from a Germanic source, probably Frankish *latta

Noun

latte f (plural lattes)

1. (Jersey) lath

Polish

Etymology

From Italian latte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lat.t?/

Noun

latte n (indeclinable) or latte f (indeclinable)

1. (colloquial) caffè latte

Further reading

• latte in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• latte in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• latti (campidanese)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin lactem (“milk”, masculine or feminine accusative), from Latin lac (“milk”, neuter), from Proto-Indo-European *?lákts. Compare Italian latte, Sicilian latti, Catalan llet, French lait, Friulian lat, Galician leite, Piedmontese làit, Portuguese leite, Romanian lapte, Spanish leche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lat.te/

Noun

latte m (plural lattes)

1. milk

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French lotte.

Noun

lotte (plural lottes)

1. burbot (fish)

Anagrams

• to let

French

Alternative forms

• lote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?t/

Noun

lotte f (plural lottes)

1. burbot (a freshwater fish, Lota lota)
2. (cooking) the tail meat of an anglerfish (a marine fish, Lophius piscatorius)

Further reading

• “lotte” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• lotte on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Italian

Noun

lotte f

1. plural of lotta

Anagrams

• letto
• tolte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Swedish, named after Finland-Swedish sutler's wife Lotta Svärd, who'd man a field kitchen during the Finnish War in the 1860 epic poem The Tales of Ensign Stål, by Johan Ludvig Runeberg.

Noun

lotte f (definite singular lotta, indefinite plural lotter, definite plural lottene)

1. a member of a female paramilitary organization

References

• “lotte” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Lotte, lotet