latifundio

lātifundiō

1. dative/ablative singular of lātifundium

From Latin lātifundium.

latifundio m (plural latifundios)

1. large estate, large land property
   • 1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 92:

     In our time latifundios south of Bahia—from the Recôncavo region to the state of Espirito Santo, between the littoral lowlands and the mountain chain along the coast—still supply raw material for a good part of the world's chocolate consumption.

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• latifundiário, latifundiado

Borrowed from Latin lātifundium.

• IPA^(key): /latiˈfundjo/
• Rhymes: -undjo
• Syllabification: la‧ti‧fun‧dio

latifundio m (plural latifundios)

1. large estate, large land property

• “latifundio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16