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cortado

US/kɔɹˈtɑdoʊ/

cortado noun: a cup of espresso served with warm milk.

cortado: a cup of espresso served with warm milk
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Noun

cortado (plural cortados)

  1. A cup of espresso served with warm milk.
    • We ordered a couple of shots and a couple of cortados and sat by the narrow, unglazed arch that overlooked the reservoir. 'To Yvan,' he declared, and I raised my aguardiente to his, chinking glasses to the insincere memory of [Yvan].2009, Chris Haslam, Twelve-Step Fandango, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 93
    • "[…] and a couple of espressos. Make the lady's a cortado, you know, the way you add just a touch of steamed milk."2021, Florencia Mallon, Beyond the Ties of Blood, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

cortado meaning in Tamil

cortado in Tamil

பால் குளம்பி

Forms of cortado

pluralcortados

Origin of cortado

Borrowed from Spanish cortado (“cut”).

Phrases with cortado

Questions about cortado

What does cortado mean?
Cortado means a cup of espresso served with warm milk.
What is cortado in Tamil?
Cortado in Tamil is பால் குளம்பி. See Cortado meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cortado?
Cortado is a noun.
How do you pronounce cortado?
Cortado is pronounced /kɔɹˈtɑdoʊ/ (US).
What is the plural of cortado?
The plural of cortado is cortados.

Words near cortado in the dictionary

  1. Corstorphine
  2. Corstorphines
  3. Cort
  4. cort-
  5. cortactin
  6. cortado
  7. cortados
  8. cortalcerone
  9. Cortalim
  10. Cortazar
  11. Cortazars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cortado (page history and authors); cortado (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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