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latifundium

[ lat-uh-fuhn-dee-uhm ]

noun

, Roman History.
, plural lat·i·fun·di·a [lat-, uh, -, fuhn, -dee-, uh].
  1. a great estate.


latifundium

/ ˌlætɪˈfʌndɪəm /

noun

  1. a large agricultural estate, esp one worked by slaves in ancient Rome
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Word History and Origins

Origin of latifundium1

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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Word History and Origins

Origin of latifundium1

C17: from Latin lātus broad + fundus farm, estate
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Example Sentences

But clearly the long tradition of latifundia — injustice favoring the landed elites and police — leaves people without a hope of getting a better life.

Natural conditions mark out Ireland as a pastoral and cattle-breeding country; and such a country is the destined home of latifundia.

The situation is scarcely better in parts of the country which are free from latifundia.

What were really “latifundia” were created, “great landes,” “enclosures of a mile or two or thereabouts ... destroying thereby not only the farms and cottages within the same circuits, but also the towns and villages adjoining.”

Partly a cause and partly a result of the spread of the latifundia was the decline of the free Italian peasantry.

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