rivitalo

rivi (“row”) +‎ talo (“house”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈriʋiˌtɑlo/, [ˈriʋiˌt̪ɑ̝lo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Syllabification^(key): ri‧vi‧ta‧lo
• Hyphenation^(key): rivi‧talo

rivitalo

1. terrace (row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses)

   Hypernym: pientalo

   Coordinate terms: erillistalo, ketjutalo, omakotitalo, paritalo, kaupunkipientalo

2. rowhouse, row house, terraced house, rowhome, town house, townhouse (one of a row of houses situated side by side and sharing a common wall)

   Synonym: rivitaloasunto

   Asun rivitalossa.

   I live in a rowhouse.

Strictly speaking, rivitalo implies that the terrace and all of its houses are located on the same lot (i.e. that each terraced house is actually an apartment or a flat), which is often owned by a housing company (asunto-osakeyhtiö). If each house has its own lot, the technical term is kaupunkipientalo or kaupunkirivitalo.

• “rivitalo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023