Family Members Names Again, for the sake of comparison, I'll show the examples in Portuguese: Avô (Grandfather), Bisavô (Great-grandfather), Trisavô, Tetravô, Pentavô, Hexavô and so on. We keep ordering with the greek numbers the older relatives. Or, in a informal and funny way of speaking, we would change 'trisavô' for 'tataravô' (a corruption of 'tetravô', actually) and just add 'tatara-' for every older generation. So, 'tataratataravô', tataratataratataravô', like a machine gun, a test of our tongues' skill as well. How to say that in English? We should add 'Great-' for every older generation (e.g. Great-great-grandfather)?