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P0270300 (frā′trē)n. pl. phra·tries 1. A kinship group constituting an intermediate division in the primitive structure of the Hellenic tribe or phyle, consisting of several patrilinear clans, and surviving in classical times as a territorial subdivision in the political and military organization of the Athenian state.2. Anthropology An exogamous subdivision of the tribe, constituting two or more related clans.

[Greek phrātriā, from phrātēr, phrātr-, fellow member of a clan; see bhrāter- in Indo-European roots.]

phra′tric adj.

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(ˈfreɪtrɪ) n, pl -tries (Anthropology & Ethnology) anthropol a group of people within a tribe who have a common ancestor[C19: from Greek phratria clan, from phratēr fellow clansman; compare Latin frāter brother] ˈphratric adj

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n., pl. -tries. 1. a grouping of clans or other social units within a tribe. 2. (in ancient Greece) a social group, based on real or fictional kinship, with corporate laws and a set of tutelary deities. [1745–55; < Greek phrātría=phrātr-, s. of phrātḗr clansman (akin to brother) + -ia -y³] phra′tric, phra′tral, adj.

phratry

1. a subdivision of an ancient Greek tribe or phyle.
2. a clan or other unit of a primitive tribe.See also: Anthropology, Greece and Greeks, Society

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phratry - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, folk, familypeople - members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"homefolk - the people of your home locality (especially your own family); "he wrote his homefolk every day"house - aristocratic family line; "the House of York"dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same familygens, name - family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name"blood line, bloodline, ancestry, lineage, pedigree, stemma, line of descent, parentage, blood, origin, descent, stock, line - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"

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see clanclan,
social group based on actual or alleged unilineal descent from a common ancestor. Such groups have been known in all parts of the world and include some that claim the parentage or special protection of an animal, plant, or other object (see totem).
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phratry

(ANTHROPOLOGY) the grouping of two or more CLANS who claim a common ancestor, which may be mythical or nonhuman (see TOTEMISM).

Phratry

a form of social organization, intermediate between the genos and phyle, in Athens and other states of preclassical Greece. A phratry generally had its own governing bodies and religion. In modern times, the term “phratry” was employed by L. H. Morgan, who discovered a similar social organization among the North American Indians. The phratry was an exogamous group of related clans; that is, its members married into other phratries. A dual organization of two phratries constituted a tribe. The principal function of a dual-phratric organization was to regulate exchanges. In later stages of social development, the division into phratries was not necessarily dual: tribes of three phratries also existed. In its later forms, the phratry was sometimes endogamous.

REFERENCES

Morgan, L. H. Drevnee obshchestvo, 2nd ed. Leningrad, 1935. (Translated from English.)
Zolotarev, A. M. Rodovoi stroi i pervobytnaia mifologiia. Moscow, 1964.
Semenov, Iu. I. Proiskhozhdenie braka isem’i. Moscow, 1974.

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noun people descended from a common ancestor

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