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词汇 latifundium
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Definition of latifundium in English:

latifundium

nounPlural latifundiaˌlɑːtɪˈfʌndɪəmˌlatɪˈfʌndɪəmˌlædəˈfəndiəm
  • A large landed estate or ranch in ancient Rome or more recently in Spain or Latin America, typically worked by peasants or slaves.

    (古罗马的)大庄园;(旧时西班牙或拉美的)大农场,大庄园

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Despite this industrialisation, a third of the population still worked as agricultural labourers, many in large estates or latifundia.
    • The labour needed to work these latifundia was provided by transforming free peasants into unfree tenants tied to the land.
    • The Alentejo has traditionally been a region of low population density, latifundia that originated in the Roman estate system, and landless day laborers.
    • In the seventh and eighth centuries, the city drew its food supply from the public, papal, and ecclesiastical patrimony in the Latium countryside and the latifundia of Sicily.
    • The countryside was dominated by giant estates or latifundia.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin, from latus 'broad' + fundus 'landed estate', partly via Spanish.

Definition of latifundium in US English:

latifundium

nounˌlædəˈfəndiəmˌladəˈfəndēəm
  • A large landed estate or ranch in ancient Rome or more recently in Spain or Latin America, typically worked by slaves.

    (古罗马的)大庄园;(旧时西班牙或拉美的)大农场,大庄园

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Alentejo has traditionally been a region of low population density, latifundia that originated in the Roman estate system, and landless day laborers.
    • The labour needed to work these latifundia was provided by transforming free peasants into unfree tenants tied to the land.
    • In the seventh and eighth centuries, the city drew its food supply from the public, papal, and ecclesiastical patrimony in the Latium countryside and the latifundia of Sicily.
    • Despite this industrialisation, a third of the population still worked as agricultural labourers, many in large estates or latifundia.
    • The countryside was dominated by giant estates or latifundia.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin, from latus ‘broad’ + fundus ‘landed estate’, partly via Spanish.

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