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10 Language-to-English DictionariesLatifundium
/ˌlæt.ɪˈfʌn.di.əm/Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A large agricultural estate or landed property, historically worked by slaves or low-wage tenant farmers.
"The country's agricultural sector was dominated by a handful of wealthy families owning vast latifundia." - 2
A system of large-scale land ownership characterized by inefficient land use and social inequality.
"Land reform initiatives were introduced to break up the latifundium system and redistribute farmland to rural peasants."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from Latin latifundium, a compound of lātus ('broad, spacious') and fundus ('farm, estate'). Historically used to denote the massive private agricultural holdings of Roman antiquity worked by slave labor, the term later expanded to describe quasi-feudal land systems in Mediterranean Europe and Latin America.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Latifundium" is said worldwide
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latifundium
Transliteration: la-ti-fœn-djɔm
"Le latifundium était exploité par de nombreux ouvriers agricoles."
Latifundium
Transliteration: La-ti-fun-di-um
"Das Latifundium dominierte die Agrarwirtschaft der Region."
latifondo
Transliteration: la-ti-fon-do
"La riforma agraria mirava a smantellare il latifondo."
latifundio
Transliteration: la-ti-fun-dio
"El latifundio abarcaba miles de hectáreas de tierra fértil."
latifúndio
Transliteration: la-ti-fun-di-o
"A concentração de terras no latifúndio gerou conflitos agrários."
विशाल भू-संपत्ति
Transliteration: vishaal bhoo-sampatti
"प्राचीन काल में विशाल भू-संपत्ति पर कई मजदूर काम करते थे।"
大庄园
Transliteration: dà zhuāngyuán
"这个大庄园占用了大部分肥沃的土地。"
라티푼디움
Transliteration: ratipundium
"라티푼디움은 로마 제국의 대농장 제도를 의미합니다."
ラティフンディウム
Transliteration: Ratifundiumu
"古代ローマのラティフンディウムは大土地所有制の典型でした。"
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