latifundium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A great landed estate with absentee ownership and labor often in a state of partial servitude.

Word forms

latifundium latifundia

Etymology

From Latin lātifundium, from lātus (“wide, extensive”) + fundus (“ground, base, estate, farm”). Doublet of latifundio.

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