phratry

IPA: frʌtri

(Ancient Greece) A clan or kinship group consisting of a number of families claiming descent from a common ancestor and having certain collective functions and responsibilities.
(anthropology, dated) A former kinship division consisting of two or more distinct clans with separate identities but considered to be a single unit.

Examples of "phratry" in Sentences

Both in Athens and Rome there was a division known as phratry or
But tell me, has your father had you entered on the registers of his phratry?
Membership in a brotherhood called a phratry was desirable but probably not a necessary condition of citizenship.
The exponent of the phratry was the tiyotipi or "soldiers’ lodge," which has been described at length by Dr Riggs. (
Each phratry was divided into two groups: the clansmen (gennetai), made up of the aristocratic eupatridae, and the guildsmen (orgeones), who practiced trade and manufacture.
We would further suggest that, if this was the seat of a tribe, each of the two divisions might have been the location of a phratry of the tribe, by a phratry, meaning the subdivision of a tribe.
He and his city wife (probably chosen for him by Lilisaire because of her family connections, she being of the Mare Crisium phratry) received me courteously if not cordially and were as cooperative as could be expected.
In their Heroic Age the Greeks were fighting in phyle and phratry, the Germanic peoples in tribes and kinship-groups, and the ancient Scots in their clans, each of which could be identified by special insignia during the greater collective military expeditions.