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单词 mezzadro
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mezzadron.

Brit. /mɛtˈsɑːdrəʊ/, /mɛtˈsadrəʊ/, /mɛdˈzɑːdrəʊ/, /mɛdˈzadrəʊ/, U.S. /mɛtˈsɑdroʊ/, /mɛdˈzɑdroʊ/
Inflections: Plural mezzadri.
Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian mezzadro.
Etymology: < Italian mezzadro a farmer who holds land on the mezzadria system (c1520), probably either < post-classical Latin mediarius sharecropper (undated in Du Cange; < classical Latin medius middle (see medium adj.) + -ārius -ary suffix1, after partiarius partiary adj.), or < classical Latin mediātor mediator n. (1244 in post-classical Latin in this sense). Compare earlier mezzadria n. Compare métayer n.
Italian History.
A tenant farmer working under the mezzadria system.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > tenant farmer
farmerc1430
fee-farmer1468
renter1593
raiyat1625
farm holder1681
sky farmer1763
métayer1776
gebur1861
mezzadro1882
bywoner1886
1882 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 45 18 In most cases the ‘Mezzadro’ owns the cattle, cattle sheds etc., rents the fields for a given price, and provides, at his own charge, for their cultivation.
1964 Economist 4 July 55/2 The mezzadri strike, vote communist.., or leave for the cities.
1970 I. Origo Images & Shadows ix. 212 Our land was worked on the system which had been almost universal in Tuscany for nearly six centuries, the mezzadria,..the tenant—called mezzadro,..contributed the..labour.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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