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Definition of Latifundium
1. Noun. A great landed estate with absentee ownership and labor often in a state of partial servitude. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Latifundium
1. [n -DIA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Latifundium
Literary usage of Latifundium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Growth of the Manor by Sir Paul Vinogradoff (1905)
"... latifundium" in the " Dictionnaire des Antiquites grecques et romaines," ii.
p. 2962 ; Meitzen, " Wanderungen," i. 352. As to Britain in particular, ..."
2. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"... extending within sight of the towers of Rome, all must be one vast latifundium
belonging to the Gothic prince. While he was sitting in the portico of ..."
3. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages: Der Wendepunkt der Renaissance by Woldemar von Seidlitz, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Annie Hamilton (1906)
"... the hereditary dominion of the Gaetani was already founded in Sermoneta, Norma,
and Ninfa. Ninfa was and still is the greatest latifundium in the whole ..."
4. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1896)
"... driven to the fields and back to the barracks as the Indians of the encomienda
or as the slaves of the Roman latifundium. This was the Spanish ideal. ..."
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