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tetravô

Portuguese, noun

tetravô is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “great-great-great-grandfather” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, tetravó is a different word: “great-great-great-grandmother”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pai da trisavó ou do trisavô”.

What does tetravô mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinegreat-great-great-grandfather

noun

as tetravó
  1. 1

    femininegreat-great-great-grandmother

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. mãe da trisavó ou do trisavô

noun: 1. pai da trisavó ou do trisavô

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of tetravô

  • tetravôs plural
  • tetravó feminine
  • tetravós feminine plural
  • tetravô masculine

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is tetravô in Portuguese?

tetravô appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).