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‖ latifundia, n. pl.|leɪtɪˈfʌndɪə|
Also 7 anglicized latifunds; in Italian form latiˈfondi (sing. latifondo).
[L. pl. of lātifundium, f. lātus broad + fundus estate.]
Large estates; large plantations in Latin America.
1630T. Wetcote Devon. (1845) 242 Each of them having their parks and large lati-funds. 1869Rogers Hist. Gleanings Ser. i. 66 The latifundia of our time had hardly begun to exist. [1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece xii. 375 The Roman latifundia.] 1902Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 612/2 Special contracts..are applied to the latifondi or huge estates [in Italy]. 1930C. F. Jones S. Amer. xxi. 310 The establishment of the latifundia first began on a large scale during Rosas' first campaign. Ibid. 447 The latifundia system. 1937F. Borkenau Spanish Cockpit i. 48 Abolition of de facto serfdom, splitting up of the latifundia in the South and the Centre. 1954Koestler Invis. Writing xxiv. 263 The ruin of farmers and the growth of large latifundia. 1961Listener 24 Aug. 266/2 The actual state farms [in Cuba] have been set up on what were almost uncultivated latifundia. 1964Punch 26 Aug. 291/1 The tired and near-forsaken latifundia in the main [W. Indies] sugar-producing islands. 1967C. Seton-Watson Italy from Liberalism to Fascism viii. 312 Most of the proprietors of the latifondi were absentees. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Feb. 124/2 The 25,000 or so medium farmers [in Chile] whose holdings were below the minimum legally classified as latifundia.
Hence latiˈfundian a., nonce-wd., possessing large estates. latiˈfundiarist a. = latifundian a. latifunˈdista [Sp.], the owner of a latifundium (Sp. latifundio) in Spain or Latin America; also in anglicized form latiˈfundist.
a1734North Exam. ii. v. §156 (1740) 414 Although the Interest of a very latifundian Faction was concerned. 1962Economist 27 Jan. 333/2 There is no latifundista class [in the Dominican Republic] to prevent effective land reform. 1963Ibid. 2 Nov. 461/2 The latifundistas, local dignitaries and conservative Catholics [in Spain]. 1964Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 268/1 A polity dominated by the owners of large estates. As this type of society has been called latifundiarist, there is no point in wasting the word feudal on it. 1970Time 2 Nov. 20 He is determined to expropriate the wealth of the big capitalists, the latifundists and the imperialists. |