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latifundium

[ lat-uh-fuhn-dee-uh m ]

/ ˌlæt əˈfʌn di əm /

noun, plural lat·i·fun·di·a [lat-uh-fuhn-dee-uh] /ˌlæt əˈfʌn di ə/. Roman History.

a great estate.

Origin of latifundium

1620–30; < Latin, equivalent to lāt(us) wide, broad + -i- -i- + fund(us) a piece of land, farm, estate + -ium -ium

Words nearby latifundium

latices, laticifer, laticiferous, latifundio, latifundista, latifundium, latigo, latilla, latimer, latimeria, latin

Example sentences from the Web for latifundia

On the field of agriculture it promotes, as the Rome of old, the latifundia ownership with all its sequences.

Woman under socialism |August Bebel
The decrease of the rural working population is marked also in England where, as well known, latifundia property reigns supreme.

Woman under socialism |August Bebel
The latifundia were themselves effects of the policy of conquest and annexation.

The Evolution of States |J. M. Robertson
Rome and Italy were poorest off for food at the time when the whole soil of Italy was held by about 3,000 latifundia owners.

Woman under socialism |August Bebel

Heisterbergk827 thinks that the latifundia were not produced by economic causes, but by vanity and ostentation.

Folkways |William Graham Sumner

British Dictionary definitions for latifundia

latifundium

/ (ˌlætɪˈfʌndɪəm) /

noun plural -dia (-dɪə)

a large agricultural estate, esp one worked by slaves in ancient Rome

Word Origin for latifundium

C17: from Latin lātus broad + fundus farm, estate