different between latte vs milk

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?lk, IPA^(key): /m?lk/
• (Canada, Inland Northern American, for some speakers) IPA^(key): [m?lk]

Etymology 1

From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h?mel?-.

Noun

milk (countable and uncountable, plural milks)

1. (uncountable) A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
   • 2007 September 24, Chris Horseman (interviewee), Emily Harris (reporter), “Global Dairy Demand Drives Up Prices”, Morning Edition, National Public Radio

     […] there's going to be that much less milk available to cover any other uses. Which means whether it's liquid milk or whether it's [milk that's been turned into] cheese or yogurt, the price gets pulled up right across the board.

2. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (uncountable) A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans. Also called non-dairy milk. [from circa 1200]
   • 1381, Pegge Cook. Recipes, page 114, quoted in 1962, Hans Kurath and Sherman M. Kuhn (editors), Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242, entry "dorr??":

     For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.

   • circa 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin (editor), Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55, London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I (Original Series; 91), OCLC 374760, page 11:

     Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]

3. (countable, informal) An individual serving of milk.

   (Formally: The guests at table three ordered three glasses of milk.)

4. (countable or invariant) An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.
   • 2014, Don Eggspuehler, Teachings From Pop, Author House (?ISBN), page 459:

     She just sat there drinking cup after cup of strong coffee, with two milks and two sugars.

   • 2015, Carolyn Arnold, City of Gold: (Mathew Connor Adventure Series Book 1), Hibbert & Stiles Publishing Inc. (?ISBN)

     Five minutes later, he returned with Justin's large coffee with two milk and two sweeteners and a black coffee for himself.

   • 2019, Maggie Blackbird, Redeemed: The Matawapit Family Series, #1, eXtasy Books (?ISBN), page 349:

     Mrs. Dale huffed up to the counter and fired her battle-axe stare at the attendant. “One medium tea. ... Two double-doubles, and one with two milk and two sweeteners.”

   • 2020, John Mitton, Tedmund and the Murdered Heiress, Page Publishing, Inc (?ISBN)

     She placed on her desk a brown paper bag; it held her breakfast, cream cheese on a toasted bagel and coffee with two milks and one sugar.

5. The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
6. (uncountable, slang) Semen.

Derived terms

Related terms

• milch

Descendants

• ? Chuukese: minik
• ? Gilbertese: miriki
• ? Japanese: ??? (miruku)
• ? Korean: ?? (milkeu)

Synonyms

• cow milk
• cow's milk
• cowmilk

Translations

See milk/translations § Noun.

References

• FDA standard of identity for "milk".

Etymology 2

From Old English melcan, from Proto-Germanic *melkan?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?mel?-, the same root as the noun. Compare Dutch and German melken, Danish malke, Norwegian mjølke, also Latin mulge? (“I milk”), Ancient Greek ?????? (amélg?, “I milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Russian ??????? (molokó), Lithuanian mélžti, Tocharian A m?lk-.

Verb

milk (third-person singular simple present milks, present participle milking, simple past and past participle milked)

1. (transitive) To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
2. (transitive) To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.

3. (transitive) To express any liquid (from any creature).
4. (transitive, figuratively) To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).
   • July 21, 1877, "The Block in the Courts" in The Spectator

     They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.

5. (of an electrical storage battery) To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.
6. (transitive, slang) To single-mindedly masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement and/or satisfaction of the masturbator/trix rather than the person masturbated.

Derived terms

• milking table

Translations

See also

• dairy
• dairy product

References

Further reading

• milk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Klim

Scanian

Alternative forms

• mjælk

Etymology

From Old Norse mj?lk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mé?lk]

Noun

milk m

1. milk