latifundio

[lat-uh-fuhn-dee-oh, -foon-, lah-tee-foon-dyaw]

noun

plural

latifundios 

1. a great estate of Latin America or Spain.

Word History and Origins

Origin of latifundio¹

1920–25; < Spanish < Latin lātifundium latifundium

Example Sentences

Brazil’s chief of strategic affairs, Maynard Santa Rosa, recently called the Amazon “an unproductive latifúndio” — a big, unfarmed estate — that needed to be developed for agriculture, mining and logging.

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