ˌlad.əˈfəndēəm noun
( plural latifun·dia -ēə)
Etymology: Latin, from lati- + -fundium (from fundus piece of landed property, bottom) — more at bottom
: a great landed estate (as in ancient Italy or in eastern Europe before World War I) often held by an absentee owner and typically employing servile or semiservile labor and primitive agricultural techniques
changed a region of latifundia into one of peasant proprietors — David Mitrany