mezzadro
/mɛtˈsɑːdrəʊ/ /mɛtˈsadrəʊ/ /mɛdˈzɑːdrəʊ/Italian History
noun
A tenant farmer working under the mezzadria system.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. From Italian mezzadro a farmer who holds land on the mezzadria system, probably either from post-classical Latin mediarius sharecropper, or from classical Latin mediātor. Compare earlier mezzadria.
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