suprafamilial

adj

Etymology

From supra- + familial.

  1. derived from *-li-
  2. derived from -ālis
  3. derived from -al
  4. derived from *dʰh₁-m-eló-
  5. derived from familia
  6. derived from familial
  7. prefixed as suprafamilial — “supra + familial

Definitions

  1. Of a level of society higher than family.

    • The social group of interest when historians speak of "communes" in rural Russia is any suprafamilial one that is linked to the territory of a village or sometimes a parish community.
  2. Whose taxonomic level is higher than family.

    • A suprafamilial name revised from its previously published rank with accompanying change of termination (which may or may not be intended to signalize the change of rank) is recorded as nom. transl et correct.
    • In the final version of this classification (Cushman, 1948), the number of families (without any suprafamilial groupings) was 50.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for suprafamilial. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA