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

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)

Related terms

• bisabuelo m
• tataranieto m

 

Further reading

• “tatarabuelo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10