latifundium
English
Etymology
From Latin lātifundium, from lātus (“wide, extensive”) + fundus (“ground, base, estate, farm”).
Noun
latifundium (plural latifundia)
- 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.
- 2011, Will Self, "The frowniest spot on Earth", London Review of Books, XXXIII.9:
Related terms
Latin
Etymology
From lātus (“wide”) + fundus (“ground, farm”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /laː.tiˈfun.di.um/, [ɫ̪äːt̪ɪˈfʊn̪d̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /la.tiˈfun.di.um/, [lät̪iˈfun̪d̪ium]
Noun
lātifundium n (genitive lātifundiī or lātifundī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
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
- English: latifundium
- Hebrew: לטיפונדיה (latifundia)
- Italian: latifondo
- Portuguese: latifúndio
- Romanian: latifundiu
- Spanish: latifundio
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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