ejido

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish ejido, from Latin exitus (“departure”), an early borrowing from Latin. Doublet of exit and exitus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛˈhiːdəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛˈhidoʊ/
• Rhymes: -iːdəʊ

Noun

ejido (plural ejidos)

1. A Mexican cooperative farm.
   • 1989, Mary I O'Connor, Descendants of Totoliguoqui: Ethnicity and Economics in the Mayo Valley, page 71:

     Ejidos are land-grant communities organized by the federal government. Each family has a plot, which cannot be sold and can only be inherited by one person. Each ejido member has a vote at ejido meetings.

   • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:

     They made camp in an oakgrove beside the river and built a fire and sat while the girl prepared their dinner out of the bounty they’d carried off from the ejido.

   • 2000, Masahiko Aoki, Yūjirō Hayami, Communities and Markets in Economic Development, page 323:

     Today, the ejido sector (including both new ejidos created by the land reform and lands restituted to indigenous communities) is composed of 28,058 communities with 3.5 million ejidatario households, 18 million individuals, and some 70 percent of the rural population.

Anagrams

• Jodie

Spanish

Alternative forms

• exido (archaic)

Etymology

A very early borrowing of Latin exitus (“departure”) (ejidos are typically on the road out of a town or village), from past participle stem of exīre (“to go out”), from ex- (“out”) +‎ īre (“to go”). The non-native nature of the word is indicated by the conservation of the high front vowel -i- as well as the absence of epenthetic -n- that is usually seen in inherited words from Latin beginning with ex- (see enjambre from Latin exāmine (“swarm”)). Doublet of éxito, a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈxido/ [eˈxi.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ido
• Syllabification: e‧ji‧do

Noun

ejido m (plural ejidos)

1. a common; common land
2. (Mexico) a cooperative farm; an ejido

   En el 1926 se decreta la Ley de Bancos Agrícolas Ejidales, con el fin de apoyar a los ejidos que se encontraban en situación difícil.

   In 1926 the "Law of Agricultural Banks of the Cooperative Farms" was decreed so as to support the cooperative farms in dire straits.

Derived terms

• ejidal
• ejidatario

 

Related terms

• exir

 

Descendants

• → English: ejido

Further reading

• “ejido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10