"great-great-great-grandson" in Spanish

Question

One of my students wants to say "great-great-great-grandson" in Spanish (we are doing a project using the future tense) and I have no clue how to tell her to do this. I know that grandson is "nieto" great-grandson is "bisnieto" and great-great-grandson is "tataranieto" but great-great-great-grandson? I have no idea. Can anyone help?

Thanks! Amanda

A vote for stumping the forum. - gringojrf, Jan 30, 2013

Hahahaha gringo!! Funny comment, but I'm afraid this could really be a difficult question. - mcl020, Jan 30, 2013

Nio doubt this is a difficult one. - gringojrf, Jan 30, 2013

Answer 1

La única definición que da el diccionario RAE al respecto es:

cuadrinieto(a)

Answer 2

In some unknown way bis is like bi in English meaning two I think tatara in the same way means three.

So the question is what is the equivalent expression for four as in son four times removed.

cuatranieto cuatrinieto?? (amended per MC1020's comment below).

See my answer: Dr Google said cuatrinieto. Don't ask me about the 'i' after cuatr- But I also found that there really are no official terms (yet). - mcl020, Jan 31, 2013

Wow. Good work mc. - gringojrf, Jan 31, 2013

¡Gracias! :) - ajbrockm, Jan 31, 2013

Answer 3

Looking at it logically, I would think it follows thus.

Bisnieto is great grandson so Bis conforms to great times one.

Tataranieto is great great grandson so Tatara conforms to great times two.

I think you just build from there.

Bisbisbisnieto/Bistataranieto - Great great great grandson

Tataratataranieto - Great great great great grandson.

Good logic! I was just being funny (trying to anyway) with taratara. Maestroantonio has the definittve reply. - Jubilado, Jan 31, 2013

¡Muchas gracias! - ajbrockm, Jan 31, 2013

Answer 4

Well, the site's translator doesn't seem to have this word, but I did Google it, and all I came up with was "tatara-tatara-tatara-nieto".

Thank you very much! - ajbrockm, Jan 30, 2013

I've heard this one used. - BigMike, Jan 30, 2013

Answer 5

How about El bisnieto de mi nieto and add ¡No sabrá nade de mí!

Enough with the tarataratara already!

No idea what tarata means but "tatara"is listed in the RAE dictionary. - Eddy, Jan 31, 2013

Gracias :) - ajbrockm, Jan 31, 2013

Answer 6

I googled it too and found: nieto trasero trasero trasero, but I doubt that this construction is really used.

I do happen to know that a great grandson is a bisnieto or a nieto trasero. And I suspect that we have to put/build a factor 3 somewhere in that trasero.
Trastaranieto is another Google-suggestion.

And now I cannot stop googling anymore:
nieto =>
bisnieto =>
tataranieto/terceranieto/trasbisnieto/rebisnieto =>
trastaranieto/cuatrinieto/cuadrianieto: "términos creados por los especialistas en genealogía y aún no incorporados al diccionario español"

Thanks!! - ajbrockm, Jan 31, 2013