English

Noun

latifundium ‎(plural latifundia)

1. A great landed estate with absentee ownership and labor often in a state of partial servitude.
   • 2011, Will Self, "The frowniest spot on Earth", 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.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /laː.tiˈfun.di.um/

Noun

lātifundium n ‎(genitive lātifundiī); second declension

1. great landed estate, large farm

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

References

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