sb. pl. Also 7 anglicized latifunds. [L. pl. of lātifundium, f. lātus broad + fundus estate.] Large estates.
1630. T. Westcote, Devon. (1845), 242. Each of them having their parks and large lati-funds.
1859. Rogers, Hist. Gleanings, Ser. I. 66. The latifundia of our time had hardly begun to exist.
[1874. Mahaffy, Soc. Life Greece, xii. 375. The Roman latifundia.]
Hence Latifundian a., nonce-wd., possessing large estates.
a. 1734. North, Exam., II. v. § 156 (1740), 414. Although the Interest of a very latifundian Faction was concerned.
