latifundium

English

Etymology

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

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/, [ɫaː.tɪˈfʊn.di.ũː]

Noun

lātifundium n (genitive lātifundiī or lātifundī); second declension

  1. great landed estate, large farm

Declension

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lātifundium lātifundia
Genitive lātifundiī
lātifundī1		 lātifundiōrum
Dative lātifundiō lātifundiīs
Accusative lātifundium lātifundia
Ablative lātifundiō lātifundiīs
Vocative lātifundium lātifundia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

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