latifundium

[ lat-uh-fuhn-dee-uhm ]

/ ˌlæt əˈfʌn di əm /

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noun, plural lat·i·fun·di·a

[lat-uh-fuhn-dee-uh]. /ˌlæt əˈfʌn di ə/. Roman History.

a great estate.

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Origin of latifundium

1620–30; <Latin, equivalent to lāt(us) wide, broad + -i--i- + fund(us) a piece of land, farm, estate + -ium-ium

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How to use latifundium in a sentence

The situation is scarcely better in parts of the country which are free from latifundia.
Contemporary Socialism|John Rae
Verumque confitentibus latifundia perdidre Italiam, immo ac provincias.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846|Various
In many cases it also promotes, as in ancient Rome, the latifundia ownership with all its results.
Woman and Socialism|August Bebel
Heisterbergk827 thinks that the latifundia were not produced by economic causes, but by vanity and ostentation.
Folkways|William Graham Sumner

The colonial latifundia gets broken up for the same economic reasons as that of the mother country.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, January 1899|Various

British Dictionary definitions for latifundium

latifundium

/ (ˌlætɪˈfʌndɪəm) /

noun plural -dia (-dɪə)

a large agricultural estate, esp one worked by slaves in ancient Rome

Word Origin for latifundium

C17: from Latin lātus broad + fundus farm, estate

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