Latte is not coffee Latte coffee is one of the more common varieties of coffee, by many people like, and that's precisely why people often take for granted that latte is a kind of coffee, in fact, is not right. Literally, "latte (latte)" in Italian means milk, and latte coffee is a mixture of milk and coffee drinks, so the name after the "coffee" is the main body of the definition of this drink, separate mention of the "latte", it is not coffee.