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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
phra·try       [frey-tree] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -tries.
1.a grouping of clans or other social units within a tribe.
2.(in ancient Greece) a subdivision of a phyle.
[Origin: 1745–55; < Gk phrātría, equiv. to phrātr-, s. of phrātr clansman (akin to brother) + -ia -y3]

—Related forms
phratric, phratral, phra·tri·ac, phra·tri·al, adjective
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phra·try       (frā'trē)  Pronunciation Key 
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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phratry

noun
people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: family] 

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Phratry

Phra"try\, n.; pl. Phratries. [Gr. ?, ?.] (Gr. Antiq.) A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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