English
Etymology
From Middle English gret-uncle, grete uncle, grete ouncle, equivalent to great- + uncle.
Noun
great-uncle (plural great-uncles)
- An uncle of one's parent (i.e. a brother or brother-in-law of one's grandparent).
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
uncle of one's parent
- Catalan: besoncle (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 伯公 (baak3 gung1) (paternal grandfather's elder brother), 叔公 (suk1 gung1) (paternal grandfather's younger brother), 外伯公 (ngoi6 baak3 gung1) (maternal grandfather's elder brother), 外叔公 (ngoi6 suk1 gung1) (maternal grandfather's younger brother), 舅公 (kau5 gung1) (grandmother's brother)
- Mandarin: 伯祖 (zh) (bózǔ) (paternal grandfather's elder brother), 伯公 (zh) (bógōng) (paternal grandfather's elder brother), 伯祖父 (bózǔfù) (paternal grandfather's elder brother), 叔祖 (zh) (shūzǔ) (paternal grandfather's younger brother), 叔公 (zh) (shūgōng) (paternal grandfather's younger brother), 叔祖父 (shūzǔfù) (paternal grandfather's younger brother), 舅爺/舅爷 (zh), 舅爷 (zh) (jiùyé) (paternal grandmother's brother), 舅祖 (zh) (jiùzǔ) (paternal grandmother's brother), 舅公 (jiùgōng) (grandmother's brother)
- Min Nan: 伯公 (zh-min-nan) (peh-kong) (paternal grandfather's elder brother), 叔公 (chek-kong) (paternal grandfather's younger brother), 舅公 (kū-kong) (grandmother's brother)
- Czech: prastrýc (cs) m
- Dutch: oudoom (nl)
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- Esperanto: praonklo
- Finnish: isosetä (fi) (brother of a grandfather), isoeno (fi) (brother of a grandfather)
- French: grand-oncle (fr) m
- Galician: tío avó m
- German: Großonkel (de) m
- Ido: preonklo, preonklulo
- Italian: prozio (it)
- Japanese: 大叔父 (ja) (おおおじ, ōoji)
- Latin: patruus magnus m (paternal), avunculus magnus m (maternal)
- Macedonian: пра́чичко m (práčičko)
- Malay: datuk saudara
- Navajo: acheii (maternal), análí (paternal)
- Norman: grand-oncl'ye m (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: grandonkel (no) m
- Nynorsk: grandonkel m
- Portuguese: tio-avô (pt)
- Russian: двою́родный дед (ru) m (dvojúrodnyj ded)
- Slovene: prastric m
- Spanish: tío abuelo m
- Welsh: hen ewythr m, hen wncwl m
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