suprafamilial

From supra- +‎ familial.

suprafamilial (not comparable)

1. Of a level of society higher than family.
   • 1988, D. Blair Gibson, M.N. Geselowitz, Tribe and Polity in Late Prehistoric Europe, Springer, Softcover reprint, page 47,

     All pastoral and agro-pastoral societies have some form of suprafamilial and often supralocal political structure, and all are marked by some form of social inequality.

   • 2002, Margaret L. Paxson, “Social Organization and the Metaphysics of Exchange”, in David J. O'Brien, Stephen K. Wegren, editors, Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, page 150:

     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.

   • 2017, John Russon, Sites of Exposure: Art, Politics, and the Nature of Experience, Indiana University Press, page 101:

     What is striking in the innovations of both Solon and Cleisthenes is the establishment of a governing body that was suprafamilial, in which the members of the council functioned as citizens—as representatives of the city-state (polis) as such—rather than as representatives of the family (oikos) or clan (genos).

2. (taxonomy) Whose taxonomic level is higher than family.
   • 1981, Raymond Cecil Moore, Curt Teichert, editors, Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, volumes 1-2, Geological Society of America, page xxiii:

     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.

   • 2002, Barun K. Sen Gupta, “2: Systematics of modern Foraminifera”, in Barun K. Sen Gupta, editor, Modern Foraminifera, Springer (Kluwer Academic), page 11:

     In the final version of this classification (Cushman, 1948), the number of families (without any suprafamilial groupings) was 50.

   • 2010, Denis Lynn, The Ciliated Protozoa: Characterization, Classification, and Guide to the Literature, Springer, page 86:

     While the Code does not apply to taxa above the family level, Corliss (1962a) argued that it is common sense to apply these principles at the suprafamilial level, and we have followed this recommendation. When a suprafamilial taxon has been simply transferred within a higher taxon or between higher taxa, even if it has changed its rank, we have retained the priority date from the original publication along with the original authorship. This promotes stability and recognizes priority.

• superfamily
• supralocal