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Italian17 Oct 2026

culaccino

koo-lah-CHEE-noh[kulatˈtʃiːno]

the pale circle a wet glass leaves on the table

Closest in English: ring, rings, watermark. None of them covers it.

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The story

Italian dictionaries put the salami first: a culaccino is the end of a sausage or the heel of a loaf. Treccani lists the other sense as well, marked uncommon, and that is the one the internet fell in love with, the print a cold glass leaves on the wood.

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  1. Which language is it from?Italian
  2. What does it literally say?Small bottom
  3. Where would you hear it?A café table after a cold beer
  4. What does it mean?The pale halo left by a cold glass

How it went

Round three, situation, was where most points went.

The most common guess for the translation was 'condensation'. Not close.