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latifundio

American  
[lat-uh-fuhn-dee-oh, -foon-, lah-tee-foon-dyaw] / ˌlæt əˈfʌn diˌoʊ, -ˈfʊn-, ˌlɑ tiˈfun dyɔ /

noun

PLURAL

latifundios

  1. a great estate of Latin America or Spain.

Etymology

Origin of latifundio

1920–25; < Spanish < Latin lātifundium latifundium

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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.

From Washington Post

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