🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

소농지

Pronunciation / Transliteration: sonongji

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Minifundium/ˌmɪn.ɪˈfʌn.di.əm/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"소농지는 농업 생산성을 크게 제한합니다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An extremely small farm or agricultural landholding that is typically insufficient to support a single family adequately.

    "The proliferation of the minifundium in the region has led to severe rural poverty and intensive subsistence farming."
  2. 2

    A system of land tenure characterized by the fragmentation of agricultural land into very small plots.

    "Agrarian reforms were introduced to address the structural inefficiencies caused by the traditional minifundium system."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Neo-Latin, combining the Latin adjective 'minimus' (smallest) and 'fundus' (farm, estate). It emerged in economic and agricultural geography contexts during the 20th century to describe extremely small agricultural landholdings, contrasting directly with large latifundia.

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