chai latte

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English

A soy vanilla chai latte served in Berlin

Pronunciation

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Noun

chai latte (countable and uncountable, plural chai lattes)

  1. A hot drink similar to masala chai or caffè latte, made with spiced tea and steamed milk.
    • 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.
    • 2008, Franklin Habit, “It Itches.” A Stash of Knitting Cartoons, Loveland, Colo.: Interweave Press LLC, →ISBN, page 103, column 2:
      Schuyler put down his earflap hat and took a thoughtful sip of chai latte.
    • 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

Finnish

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Internationalism. Compare English chai latte. Initial part ultimately from Persian چای (čây) (compare tsaikku), the latter from Italian (caffè) latte. Coined in 1994.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʃɑi̯ˌlɑtːe/,
  • IPA(key): /ˈtsɑi̯ˌlɑtːe/,
  • Hyphenation(key): chai‧lat‧te

Noun

chai latte

  1. chai latte (a drink similar to masala chai)

Declension

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.
Possessive forms of chai latte (Kotus type 8*C/nalle, tt-t gradation)