σπίτι
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Byzantine Greek σπίτιν (spítin), from earlier or Koine Greek ὁσπίτιον (hospítion), from Latin hospitium (“lodgings”). Compare Albanian shtëpi. Displaced earlier Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]σπίτι • (spíti) n (plural σπίτια)
- (also used adverbially) house, home (structure built or serving as an abode of human beings)
- (by extension) household, house (all the persons who live in a given house)
- (euphemistic, figuratively) brothel (house used by prostitutes)
- Synonyms: οίκος ανοχής (oíkos anochís), πορνείο (porneío)
Declension
[edit]Declension of σπίτι
Derived terms
[edit]- ασπίτωτος (aspítotos, “homeless”, adjective)
- σπιτάκι n (spitáki, diminutive)
- σπιταρόνα f (spitaróna, augmentative)
- σπιτικό n (spitikó, “household”)
- σπιτικός (spitikós, “house-, home, homely”, adjective)
- σπιτήσιος (spitísios, “house-, home, homely”, adjective)
- σπιτόγατος m (spitógatos, “stay-at-home person, homebird”)
- σπιτονοικοκύρης m (spitonoikokýris, “landlord”)
- σπιτονοικοκυρά f (spitonoikokyrá, “landlady”)
- σπιτώνω (spitóno, “to provide with a home, to put up”)
- σπίτωμα n (spítoma, “act of providing with a home, putting up”)
- από σπίτι (apó spíti, “of good lineage”, literally “from a house”)
- για σπίτι (gia spíti, “marriageable”, literally “for a household”)
- δουλειές του σπιτιού f pl (douleiés tou spitioú, “housework”)
- κάνω το σπίτι (káno to spíti, “to do housework”)
- κλείνω το σπίτι (kleíno to spíti, “bring trouble on a household”)
(literally “to close the house”) - σπίτι μου, σπιτάκι μου (spíti mou, spitáki mou, “home sweet home”)
(literally “my house, my little house")
Further reading
[edit]- σπίτι on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
- σπίτι, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
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