🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

대농지

Pronunciation / Transliteration: daenongji

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Latifundio/ˌlæ.tɪˈfʌn.di.oʊ/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #85000 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"라티푼디움 제도는 농촌 경제에 큰 영향을 미쳤다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A very large agricultural estate or landholding, typically characterized by absentee ownership and underutilization of land.

    "The agrarian reform program aimed to expropriate and redistribute the vast latifundios among landless peasants."
  2. 2

    A massive tract of private land dominated by traditional, often exploitative labor systems.

    "Economic inequality in the region was deeply rooted in the historical persistence of the latifundio system."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Spanish and Portuguese 'latifundio', originating from the Latin 'latifundium', a compound of 'latus' (broad, wide) and 'fundus' (farm, estate). Historically used in the Roman Empire to describe vast agricultural estates, the term evolved in modern contexts to signify large-scale landholdings characteristic of Latin American agrarian structures.

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