Etymology

supertribe

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Today it means: one of the ranks used in classifying animal life forms; a supertribe is more specific than a subfamily and more general than a tribe Full definition →

English tribe ← Latin super- ← Proto-Italic *super
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Englishtribe
  8. English todaysupertribe

From super- + tribe.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.