latifundio

American

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

noun

a great estate of Latin America or Spain.

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Noun Inflected Forms

latifundios

plural

Etymology

Origin of latifundio

1920–25; < Spanish < Latin lātifundium latifundium

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Pressure has been growing against the latifundios ever since Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata raised his famous war cry of "land and liberty" in 1910.

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