chai latte
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]chai latte (countable and uncountable, plural chai lattes)
- A hot drink similar to masala chai or caffè latte, made with spiced tea and steamed milk.
- Hyponym: dirty chai
- 2005, Joe Calloway, Indispensable: How to Become the Company That Your Customers Can’t Live Without, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 80:
- They sit in their favorite chairs at their favorite tables and hang out with their friends who also don’t like coffee but adore the chai lattes.
- 2012, Howard Bloom, The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 234:
- Seven and seven million may be very different from each other. But when you compare them to cups of chai latte, volcanoes, light bulbs, and lamas, it’s obvious that seven million and seven belong to the same species. It’s obvious that all numbers share common characteristics.
References
[edit]- “chai latte, n.”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “chai latte, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Internationalism. Compare English chai latte. Initial part ultimately from Persian چای (čây), the latter from Italian (caffè) latte.
Noun
[edit]chai latte m (plural chai lattes, diminutive chai lattetje n)
- chai latte
- Hyponym: dirty chai
Finnish
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English chai latte, initial part ultimately from Persian چای (čây) (compare tsaikku), the latter from Italian (caffè) latte.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈtʃɑi̯ˌlɑtːe/, [ˈt̪ʃɑ̝i̯ˌlɑ̝t̪ːe̞]
- IPA(key): /ˈtsɑi̯ˌlɑtːe/, [ˈts̠ɑ̝i̯ˌlɑ̝t̪ːe̞]
- Syllabification(key): chai‧lat‧te
- Hyphenation(key): chai‧lat‧te
Noun
[edit]chai latte
- chai latte (a drink similar to masala chai)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of chai latte (Kotus type 8*C/nalle, tt–t gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | chai latte | chai latet | |
| genitive | chai laten | chai lattejen | |
| partitive | chai lattea | chai latteja | |
| illative | chai latteen | chai latteihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | chai latte | chai latet | |
| accusative | nom. | chai latte | chai latet |
| gen. | chai laten | ||
| genitive | chai laten | chai lattejen chai lattein rare | |
| partitive | chai lattea | chai latteja | |
| inessive | chai latessa | chai lateissa | |
| elative | chai latesta | chai lateista | |
| illative | chai latteen | chai latteihin | |
| adessive | chai latella | chai lateilla | |
| ablative | chai latelta | chai lateilta | |
| allative | chai latelle | chai lateille | |
| essive | chai lattena | chai latteina | |
| translative | chai lateksi | chai lateiksi | |
| abessive | chai latetta | chai lateitta | |
| instructive | — | chai latein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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