tio-avô

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From tio (“uncle”) +‎ avô (“grandfather”). === Pronunciation === === Noun === tio-avô m (plural tios-avôs, feminine tia-avó, feminine plural tias-avós) great-uncle (brother of one's grandparent; uncle of one's parent) ==== Usage notes ==== Tio-avô has two plural forms, tios-avôs and tios-avós. The former means exclusively a group of two or more men (cf. English great-uncles), the latter is used for a group of both men and women. Both are masculine nouns. The plural of tia-avó (great-ant) is a regular feminine noun (tias-avós) and means great-aunts. This is one of the few Portuguese nouns that have a tripartite plural inflection, the others being avô, sogro, consogro, bisavô and other derived terms. ==== Related terms ==== tia-avó sobrinho-neto sobrinha-neta === Further reading === “tio-avô”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “tio-avô”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026