ejido

English

Etymology

Mexican Spanish ejido.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /eɪˈhiːdəʊ/

Noun

ejido

1. a Mexican cooperative farm
   • 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.

Anagrams

• Jodie

Spanish

Alternative forms

• exido (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin exitus ‘departure’ (ejidos are typically on the road out of a town or village), from past participle stem of exire ‘go out’, from ex- + ire ‘to go’.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /eˈxiðo/

Noun

ejido m (plural ejidos)

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