LATIFUNDIO Definition & Meaning

latifundio

[ lat-uh-fuhn-dee-oh, -foon-; Spanish lah-tee-foon-dyaw ]

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noun

plural latifundios

a great estate of Latin America or Spain.

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Origin of latifundio¹

1920–25; < Spanish < Latin ��پ��ڳܲԻ徱�ܳ� 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.

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