Definitions for latifundia

latifundia lat·i·fun·di·um

Spelling: [lat-uh-fuhn-dee-uh m]
IPA: /ˌlæt əˈfʌn di əm/

Latifundia is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 338 anagrams from letters in latifundia (aadfiilntu).

Definitions for latifundia

noun

  1. a great estate.

Origin of latifundia

1620-30; Latin, equivalent to lāt(us) wide, broad + -i- -i- + fund(us) a piece of land, farm, estate + -ium -ium

Examples for latifundia

The latifundia were themselves effects of the policy of conquest and annexation.

The ‘latifundia perdidere’ the Antilles, as they did Italy of old.

The situation is scarcely better in parts of the country which are free from latifundia.

In many cases it also promotes, as in ancient Rome, the latifundia ownership with all its results.

The decrease of the rural working population is marked also in England where, as well known, latifundia property reigns supreme.

On the field of agriculture it promotes, as the Rome of old, the latifundia ownership with all its sequences.

Heisterbergk827 thinks that the latifundia were not produced by economic causes, but by vanity and ostentation.

Rome and Italy were poorest off for food at the time when the whole soil of Italy was held by about 3,000 latifundia owners.

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