latte

Etymology 1

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

noun

1. A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam.
   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. 2013-06-22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
2. A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea).

Etymology 2

noun

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.