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σπίτι
house /ˈspiti/
nounA1#45 most common
Also: home, household, dwelling
Example sentences
Το σπίτι μου είναι μεγάλο.
My house is big.
Μένω σε ένα μικρό σπίτι κοντά στη θάλασσα.
I live in a small house near the sea.
Όταν γύρισα σπίτι, βρήκα την πόρτα ανοιχτή.
When I got home, I found the door open.
Τα σπίτια στο χωριό είναι χτισμένα με πέτρα.
The houses in the village are built of stone.
Το σπίτι όπου μεγάλωσα έχει πια κατεδαφιστεί.
The house where I grew up has now been demolished.
Όσο κι αν ταξιδέψεις, στο πατρικό σου σπίτι θα νιώθεις πάντα μια ανείπωτη οικειότητα.
No matter how far you travel, in your family home you will always feel an unspoken intimacy.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | σπίτι | σπίτια |
| Genitive | σπιτιού | σπιτιών |
| Accusative | σπίτι | σπίτια |
| Vocative | σπίτι | σπίτια |
Word family
σπιτάκιlittle house, cottage
σπιτικόςhomemade, domestic, household
σπιτονοικοκύρηςlandlord
σπιτώνωto house, to set someone up in a home
Etymology
σπίτι derives from Medieval Greek σπίτιον, a reduced form of the Latin loanword hospitium ('guest-lodging, hospitality'). Over the Byzantine period it gradually displaced Ancient Greek οἶκος as the ordinary word for 'house'. The Latin term goes back to hospes ('host, guest'), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʰóstis ('stranger, guest, host').
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