Other forms: cappuccinos
A cappuccino is coffee under a thick cap of steamed foam. Order a cappuccino, a dry cappuccino, cappuccino with chocolate.
The classic proportions are a third espresso, a third hot milk, a third foam, and Italians drink it only in the morning. It is named after the Capuchin friars, whose brown habits matched the colour of the drink.
1nouncappuccinoEspresso topped with steamed milk and thick foam.
“I'd like a cappuccino with extra foam and a sprinkle of chocolate, please.”
cappuccino is a coffee.
Italian cappuccino means little hood, after the brown habits of the Capuchin friars, which matched the colour.
Proto-Indo-European
*káput
German
Kapuziner — Capuchin (a member of an order of Roman Catholic friars)
Italian
cappuccino — cappuccino (coffee drink)
English, today
cappuccino
Built from
Italian cappuccino (“cappuccino (coffee drink)”), from Viennese German Kapuziner (“Capuchin (a member of an order of Roman Catholic friars)”) (due to the similarity of the dark brown colour of the beverage to that of the monastic habit; compare Franziskaner (“Franciscan”), a contemporary coffee drink with more milk and hence a lighter colour, similar to the light brown habits worn by Franciscan monks), and café noisette. Kapuziner was in turn borrowed from Italian cappuccino (“Capuchin”), from Italian cappuccio (“cowl, hood”) (from the hoods of Capuchin monks’ habits) + -ino; and cappuccio from cappa (“cowl, hood; cape, cloak; sleeveless coat”) (from Latin cappa (“cape; sleeveless coat”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European káput (“head”)) + -uccio (“diminutive suffix”). a doublet of Capuchin. The plural form cappuccini is derived from Italian cappuccini. 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA