latifundium
noun
a great estate.
latifundia
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pluralof latifundium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In the city, and in the household especially, they had more advantages and avoided the brutal physical labor demanded in mines, quarries, and latifundia across the empire.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Large estates, known as latifundia, were agricultural operations in which enslaved people worked the land for the owner’s profit.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
As the old freehold farming class lost its lands to the big owners of the latifundia, the productivity of the soil decreased.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet the Gracchan attempt to solve the land crisis that had been caused by the growth of the monopolistic latifundia, or great estates, was beaten back by the republican Senate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everybody knows the phrase of Pliny upon the landed monopoly which determined the fall of Italy, latifundia perdidere Italiam.
From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
