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latifundium

[ lat-uh-fuhn-dee-uhm ]

noun

Roman History.
plural latifundia
  1. a great estate.


latifundium

/ ˌæɪˈʌԻɪə /

noun

  1. a large agricultural estate, esp one worked by slaves in ancient Rome
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of latifundium1

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

Origin of latifundium1

C17: from Latin us broad + fundus farm, estate
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But clearly the long tradition of latifundia — injustice favoring the landed elites and police — leaves people without a hope of getting a better life.

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

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

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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.”

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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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