tatarabuelo

Spanish

Etymology

Coined by analogy with tataranieto, and this of tratranieto, of the prefix tras- reduplicated and nieto; formerly trasabuelo was the usual term for our modern bisabuelo. Coromines dates the term around 1625[1]

Noun

tatarabuelo m (plural tatarabuelos, feminine tatarabuela, feminine plural tatarabuelas)

  1. great-great-grandfather (great-great-grandmother for the feminine form)
  2. (usually in the plural) great-great-grandparent (either a great-great-grandmother or a great-great-grandfather)

References
  1. “Fuentes de libros - Wikcionario, el diccionario libre”, in es.wiktionary.org‎ (in Spanish), 2021 July 1 (last accessed)

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