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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LATIFUNDIUM

From Latin lātus broad + fundus farm, estate.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LATIFUNDIUM

latifundium  [ˌlætɪˈfʌndɪəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LATIFUNDIUM

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verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Latifundium is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LATIFUNDIUM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Latifundium

A latifundium is a very extensive parcel of privately owned land. The latifundia of Roman history were great landed estates, specializing in agriculture destined for export: grain, olive oil, or wine. They were characteristic of Magna Graecia and Sicily, of Egypt and the North African Maghreb and of Hispania Baetica in southern Spain. The latifundia were the closest approximation to industrialized agriculture in Antiquity, and their economics depended upon slave labour. During the modern colonial period, the Portuguese and Spanish monarchs often rewarded military service with extensive land grants in Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, Venezuela, Uruguay, Cuba, Chile and Argentina. The forced recruitment of local laborers allowed by colonial law made these land grants particularly lucrative for their owners. These grants, fazendas or haciendas, were also known by terms borrowed from the word "latifundia", respectively latifúndios or latifundios or simply fundos.

Definition of latifundium in the English dictionary

The definition of latifundium in the dictionary is a large agricultural estate, esp one worked by slaves in ancient Rome.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LATIFUNDIUM


antependium
ˌæntɪˈpɛndɪəm
caladium
kəˈleɪdɪəm
clostridium
klɒˈstrɪdɪəm
compendium
kəmˈpɛndɪəm
cryptosporidium
ˌkrɪptəʊspɔːˈrɪdɪəm
disodium
daɪˈsəʊdɪəm
idiom
ˈɪdɪəm
indium
ˈɪndɪəm
intermedium
ˌɪntəˈmiːdɪəm
iridium
aɪˈrɪdɪəm
medium
ˈmiːdɪəm
myocardium
ˌmaɪəʊˈkɑːdɪəm
palladium
pəˈleɪdɪəm
podium
ˈpəʊdɪəm
radium
ˈreɪdɪəm
rhodium
ˈrəʊdɪəm
scandium
ˈskændɪəm
sodium
ˈsəʊdɪəm
stadium
ˈsteɪdɪəm
vanadium
vəˈneɪdɪəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LATIFUNDIUM

lathyrism
lathyritic
Lathyrus
lati
latices
laticifer
laticiferous
laticlave
latifundia
latigo
latilla
Latimer
latimeria
Latin
Latin alphabet
Latin America
Latin American
Latin Church
Latin cross
latin lover

WORDS THAT END LIKE LATIFUNDIUM

anacardium
contrast medium
culture medium
cymbidium
cypripedium
endocardium
erodium
happy medium
interstellar medium
monosodium
odium
oncidium
pericardium
plasmodium
praeludium
presidium
primordium
rubidium
sports stadium
tedium

Synonyms and antonyms of latifundium in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «latifundium» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LATIFUNDIUM

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The translations of latifundium from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «latifundium» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

latifundium
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

latifundio
570 millions of speakers

English

latifundium
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

latifundium
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المزروعة بقصب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

латифундии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

latifúndio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

latifundium
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

latifundium
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Latifundium
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Grossgrundbesitzes,
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

latifundium
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

latifundium
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Latifundium
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

latifundium
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

latifundium
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लॅटीफिन्डियम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

latifundium
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

latifondo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

latyfundium
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

латифундії
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

latifundium
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

latifundium
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

latifundium
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

latifundium
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

latifundium
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of latifundium

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LATIFUNDIUM»

The term «latifundium» is used very little and occupies the 166.692 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LATIFUNDIUM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about latifundium

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LATIFUNDIUM»

Discover the use of latifundium in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to latifundium and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Latifundium:
This volume will be of interest to a wide variety of historians of Europe and Italy, feudalism and class structure, politics, and industrial growth.
Marta Petrusewicz, 1996
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Mexican Agriculture :1521-1630 :+fifteen Twenty-one- Sixteen ...
I shall try to demonstrate in what follows that the historical evidence presented by Chevalier and Borah themselves, if subjected to economic analysis, suggests that the growth of the latifundium in seventeenth-century Mexico was not a ...
Andre Gunder Frank, 1979
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Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality
José Carlos Mariátegui. Instead of individuals separately offering their services to landowners or contractors, all the ablebodied men of the cooperative jointly contract to do the work. The. “Community”. and. the. Latifundium. The defenseof ...
José Carlos Mariátegui, 2014
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The Jews of Pinsk, 1506 to 1880
The nobleman Iwan Sultan, who, beginning in 1602, leased the Zyrowicze estate to Michaelewicz, complained in 1605 that the lessee had brought with him to the latifundium his friends, Jews from Slonim. Sultan named individuals from at ...
Mordekhai Nadav, Mark Mirsky, 2008
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Law and Development in Latin America
The State does not recognise the latifundium which is a rural property of large area varying according to its gographical situation, ther undeveloped or substantially under-developed, by the diffuse field-cropping system with the use of obsolete ...
K.S. Rosenn, K.L. Karst
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The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of ...
In the case of the latifundium, laborers are tied to the plantation or hacienda not through wages, although they may earn a wage. Rather, they are obliged to work for the plantation or hacienda through extraeconomic forms of coercion (debt ...
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, 2003
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Italian Historical Rural Landscapes: Cultural Values for the ...
With the rise of the latifundium system (1861–1951), the landscape acquired an identity and an integrity that have remained unaltered until the present day. The latifundium system was established following the abolition of the Ecclesiastical ...
Mauro Agnoletti, 2012
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Regional Architecture in the Mediterranean Area
2.0 AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF RURAL SUBURBS IN SICILY Little time before the beginning of the second world war, 20th of July 1939, Benito Mussolini organized the “assault” of the Sicilian latifundium. It concretised with the first law ...
Alessandro Bucci, Luigi Mollo, 2010
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The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic
Hypothetical organizational hierarchy of a 'latifundium' Dominus (landlord/owner) fundus cereal grains: wheat, barley vilicus manager/bailiff magister pecoris master herdsman fundus herding of cattle, vilicus manager/bailiff fundus suburbanus ...
Harriet I. Flower, 2014
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Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and ...
The following two sections summarize key features of Guerra's arguments and discuss how my conclusions complement or challenge Guerra's views. The Rise of the Sugar Latifundium Guerra proposed that the sugar latifundium arose in ...
Alan Dye, 1998

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LATIFUNDIUM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term latifundium is used in the context of the following news items.
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ПОПОДНЕВНА РАЗМИШЉАЊА ТОМАСА ЛОРЕНСА (24) ИЛИ …
Сети се да реч latifundium још од римских времена означава велико имање у приватном власништву, а када су Шпанија и Португалија ... «NoviStandard, Apr 15»
2
Rousseff's Brazil – No Country for the Landless
5 interview with the newspaper Folha de São Paulo that there are no “latifundium” or large landed estates in Brazil. “Abreu has backwards ... «Inter Press Service, Feb 15»
3
Land possession and peasants, the first strong clash in Rousseff's …
... with Agriculture minister Katia Abreu arguing there are no large estates ('latifundium') left in Brazil, while her Agrarian Development peer and ... «MercoPress, Jan 15»
4
Land Rights Activist Arrested in Venezuela, Protestors Claim …
Citing the constitutional law outlawing latifundium, Peña insisted, “We ... and of no benefit to the surrounding community as illegal latifundium. «Venezuelanalysis.com, Dec 14»
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How to Manage Your Slaves, by Marcus Sidonius Falx, with Jerry …
... to my knowledge, ever went “down and out” in Rome and Athens or lived as a slave on a Roman latifundium or in a major urban centre. «Times Higher Education, Aug 14»
6
Peru's economic evolution
The latifundium, however, escapes these rules and levies. It can compete unfairly with urban industry and commerce and is in a position to ruin ... «Socialist Worker Online, Feb 14»
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“The resolution of agrarian conflicts doesn't depend on the signing of …
We can't expect that in Havana, they will sign onto the end of latifundium or that the country will be structurally reformed. But the accord can ... «Latinamerica Press, Apr 13»
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The class struggle in the Roman Republic, part four
The farm, the latifundium provided the workers' foodstuffs and raw materials, and in most cases their tools too. And since the slaves had to be ... «In Defense of Marxism, Sep 09»

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