单词 | latifundia |
释义 | latifundian. With plural agreement. Large estates; large plantations in Latin America. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > a landed property or estate > large estates latifundiaa1636 a1636 T. Westcote View Devonshire 1630 (1845) 242 Each of them having their parks and large lati-funds. 1869 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings 1st Ser. 66 The latifundia of our time had hardly begun to exist. 1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece xii. 375 The Roman latifundia.] 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 612/2 Special contracts..are applied to the latifondi or huge estates [in Italy]. 1930 C. F. Jones S. Amer. xxi. 310 The establishment of the latifundia first began on a large scale during Rosas' first campaign. 1930 C. F. Jones S. Amer. xxi. 447 The latifundia system. 1937 F. Borkenau Spanish Cockpit i. 48 Abolition of de facto serfdom, splitting up of the latifundia in the South and the Centre. 1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing xxiv. 263 The ruin of farmers and the growth of large latifundia. 1961 Listener 24 Aug. 266/2 The actual state farms [in Cuba] have been set up on what were almost uncultivated latifundia. 1964 Punch 26 Aug. 291/1 The tired and near-forsaken latifundia in the main [W. Indies] sugar-producing islands. 1967 C. Seton-Watson Italy from Liberalism to Fascism viii. 312 Most of the proprietors of the latifondi were absentees. 1974 Times 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. Derivatives latiˈfundian adj. possessing large estates.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §156 414 Although the Interest of a very latifundian Faction was concerned. latiˈfundiarist adj. = latifundian adj. ΚΠ 1964 J. Gould & W. L. 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. latifunˈdista n. [Spanish] the owner of a latifundium (Spanish latifundio) in Spain or Latin America; also in anglicized form latifundist n. ΚΠ 1962 Economist 27 Jan. 333/2 There is no latifundista class [in the Dominican Republic] to prevent effective land reform. 1963 Economist 2 Nov. 461/2 The latifundistas, local dignitaries and conservative Catholics [in Spain]. latiˈfundist n. ΚΠ 1970 Time 2 Nov. 20 He is determined to expropriate the wealth of the big capitalists, the latifundists and the imperialists. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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