Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ejido

/ɛˈhidoʊ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English

Syllables: eji-do
IPA: /ɛˈhidoʊ/

13

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Mexican cooperative farm.

Example Sentences

"Ejidos are land-grant communities organized by the federal government. Each family has a plot, which cannot be sold and can only be inherited by one person. Each ejido member has a vote at ejido meetings."
"They made camp in an oakgrove beside the river and built a fire and sat while the girl prepared their dinner out of the bounty they’d carried off from the ejido."
"Today, the ejido sector (including both new ejidos created by the land reform and lands restituted to indigenous communities) is composed of 28,058 communities with 3.5 million ejidatario households, 18 million individuals, and some 70 percent of the rural population."

Etymology

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish ejido, from Latin exitus (“departure”), an early borrowing from Latin. Doublet of exit and exitus.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: exitus

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ɛˈhidoʊ/
British English: /ɛˈhiːdəʊ/

Inflected Forms

ejidos (plural)

Rhymes With

toledo torpedo guido tuxedo libido pedo lido credo speedo aikido ido escondido

Questions

How do you pronounce ejido?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɛˈhidoʊ/.
What does ejido mean?: A Mexican cooperative farm.
Where does ejido come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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