macchiato – English noun declension

English noun forms of macchiato

Noun: macchiato
Singularmacchiato
Pluralmacchiatos

Sample Sentences

  • Formerly used only in Italy and Seattle, it includes such tongue activators as latte, lungo, cappuccino, ristretto, macchiato, mochaccino and Americano. [1995 July 19, Suzanne Hamlin, “Coffee Drinks That Are Cool and Creamy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2022:]
  • Kadar Al-Jahani glanced around at the rich Romans and the American tourists sipping their macchiati and cappuccini, and smiled. [2004, David A Rollins, Sword of Allah, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan Macmillan Australia, published 2005, →ISBN, page 109:]
  • This is a city obsessed by coffee. Sydneysiders can tell their arabica from their robusta, their macchiati from their ristretti, and have been known to follow their favourite barista from café to café. [2004, Pat Nourse, “Cafés, Bars & Pubs”, in Cath Phillips et al., editors, Time Out Sydney, 4th edition, London: Ebury Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, page 126, column 1:]
  • Janie and I are having a couple of macchiati in Carluccio’s and discussing Judith Levine’s best-seller Not Buying It – A Year Without Shopping. [2006 August 12, Rosie Millard, “Leftovers in a Lidl bag – this must be a trip to remember”, in save&spend (The Independent), London, page 6, column 1:]
  • The book’s contents are for the most part the result of scribbling on napkins over numerous macchiati and espressos away from the office at different posts over the years. [2010, Vladimir Alvarado, Eduardo Manrique, “Preface”, in Enhanced Oil Recovery: Field Planning and Development Strategies, Burlington, Mass.: Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page vii:]
  • Yellow cabs whizzed past, horns blared and people didn’t stop moving as they walked briskly down the sidewalks with their steaming cups of macchiato, mobile phones and iPods. [2014, Holly Martin, chapter 11, in One Hundred Proposals, Richard, Surrey: CARINA, Harlequin (UK) Limited, published 2015, →ISBN, page 190:]
  • Senior Grits will splutter into their macchiati at the very idea that political bias is at play, pointing out that the latest list includes a former female head of the Canadian Association of Police Chiefs (Gwen Boniface) and the ex-head of the Ontario Securities Commission (Howard Wetston). [2016 November 1, John Ivison, “We have no idea who was rejected”, in Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ont., page NP2, column 5:]

Etymology

1. From Italian caffè macchiato (“stained coffee”), from macchiato (“stained, marked”), as the coffee is “marked” with a spot of milk. From Latin maculātus (“stained”), form of macula (“stain”).
2. Cognate to English macula (“[dark] spot”), French maculé. See: Italian Nouns 'caffè macchiato', Latin Nouns 'maculātus', English Nouns 'macula'.