Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

latifundium

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lat-i-fundi-um
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A great landed estate with absentee ownership and labor often in a state of partial servitude.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: lātifundium

Inflected Forms

latifundia (plural)

Derived Forms

latifundism

Frequently Paired Words

latifondo latifundial latifundiary latifundio

Questions

What does latifundium mean?: A great landed estate with absentee ownership and labor often in a state of partial servitude.
Where does latifundium come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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