latifundio
Latin
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin lātifundium.
Noun
latifundio m (plural latifundios)
- 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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Derived terms
- latifundiário, latifundiado
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lātifundium.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “latifundio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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