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- Latin · borrowed fromlātifundium
- English todaylatifundium
From Latin lātifundium, from lātus (“wide, extensive”) + fundus (“ground, base, estate, farm”). Doublet of latifundio.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
latifundium
Today it means: A great landed estate with absentee ownership and labor often in a state of partial servitude. Full definition →
Latin lātifundium