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café com leite

Portuguese, noun

café com leite is spelled C-A-F-É-C-O-M-L-E-I-T-E (12 letters). Café com leite is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “greenhorn (inexperienced person)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does café com leite mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinegreenhorn (inexperienced person)

  2. 2

    masculinethe oligarchic domination of Brazilian politics by the coffee industry (São Paulo) and dairy industry (Minas Gerais) during the First Brazilian Republic (1889–1930)

  3. 3

    masculineUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see café, com, leite.

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

phrase: 1. que não tem capacidade desenvolta por ser inexperiente, que muito pouco ou nada sabe das regras ou táticas e/ou por ter desenvolvimento abaixo de seus pares tem relevado ou desconsiderado o seus resultados ou suas ações

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of café com leite

  • cafés com leite plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to café com leite

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

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