estate Copy link Outline I. StateII. Landed property1. praedium (strictly applicable only to e.s in Italy or provinces enjoying the jus Italicum; other landed properties being called possessiones, Habicht § 473; also in gen. sense)2. fundus (any landed property, small or large)3. ăger, gri4. possessio (a holding any kind; whether of freehold property or otherwise)III. An order or class • estate: I. State: stătus, ūs: v. state, condition. Phr.: to attain to man's e., adolescere, v. to grow up. II. Landed property: 1. praedium (strictly applicable only to e.s in Italy or provinces enjoying the jus Italicum; other landed properties being called possessiones, Habicht § 473; also in gen. sense): an e. in the country, rusticum pr., Nep. Att. 14: though he (Cimon) had e.s and pleasure-grounds in various places, quum compluribus locis praedia hortosque haberet, Nep.: Cic. 2. fundus (any landed property, small or large): to visit one's e., f. suum obire, Cic.: neither house nor e., non domus non f., Hor. 3. ăger, gri: v. farm, land. 4. possessio (a holding any kind; whether of freehold property or otherwise): he promises the soldiers land from his own e.s, militibus agros ex suis p. pollicetur, Caes. B. C. 1, 17: e.s in Epirus and the capital, Epiroticae et urbanae p., Nep. Att. 14. Phr.: an e. at Tusculum, Tusculanum (sc. praedium), Cic.: to stay at your e. in Epirus, ut apud te in Epiro sim, Cic. Att. 3, 7, init. III. An order or class: Phr.: the three e.s of the realm, *civitatis (reipublicae) ordines terni: v. order.