Most traditional coffeehouse drinks are espresso based. Since espresso was developed primarily in Italy, many of the drinks are in Italian. The most common coffee beverage in Italy in straight espresso. One can order the espresso as a ristretto meaning restricted or limited. A ristretto uses the same amount of coffee but less water is pumped through it. One can order the shot as a normale meaning normal; or one can order the shot as a lungo, meaning long, where more water is pumped through the same amount of coffee. Macchiato means "marked" or "stained" in Italian, so if one orders a macchiato, one gets the typical drink - espresso - marked with just a bit of foamed milk. If one orders a latte in a Italian coffeebar, they are likely to receive a strange look and a glass of milk, because latte just means milk; which makes cafe latte "coffee-milk" (cafe (or caffé) means coffee (unfortunately now cafe seems to mean all sorts of things)). So a latte is like hot coffee-flavored milk. A macchiato has about double the espresso (per unit volume) as a cappuccino and a cappuccino has about double the espresso (per unit volume) as a latte. So what does cappuccino mean? Well cappuccino doesn't follow the trend and just means cappuccino. The word comes from the color of the drink resembling (in color) the habit of a Capuchin friar. Since panna means cream in Italian, so the espresso con panna is just espresso with whipped cream. And since macchiato means marked and latte means milk, a latte macchiato is hot milk just marked with espresso (as opposed to the milk marking the espresso in the case of the macchiato). Finally there is the cafe breve (a cappuccino with half&half instead of milk) breve means short in Italian, and It seems the reason the name cafe breve is used is because when using the light cream, the Italians were careful not to bruise or curdle it by steaming to long, so they steamed it breve.