latifundium

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

latifundium (plural latifundia)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A great landed estate with absentee ownership and labor often in a state of partial servitude.
   • 2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 251:

     The conclusive military victory of Philip V left the grandees stranded, still rich and still powerful on their latifundia, but stripped of the ‘aristocratic republicanism’ they had previously enjoyed.

   • 2011, Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.9:

     His vision for the future of the African continent in the Age of the Aerotropolis seems to be as a vast latifundium sown with GM wheat.

Derived from Latin latifundium.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlatɪfundɪjum]

latifundium n

1. large estate

• The plural latifundie seems to be much more common.

• plantáž
• pozemek
• půda
• velkostatek

• “latifundium”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “latifundium”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “latifundium”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

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latifundium m (plural latifundiums)

1. latifundium

• “latifundium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From lātus (“wide”) +‎ fundus (“ground, farm”) +‎ -ium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫaː.tɪˈfʊn.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [la.t̪iˈfun̪.d̪i.um]

lātifundium n (genitive lātifundiī or lātifundī); second declension

1. great landed estate, large farm

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “latifundium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• latifundium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “latifundium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Latin latifundium.

latifundium n

1. latifundium

• latifundium in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• latifundium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)