Definitions for phratry
ˈfreɪ triphra·t·ry

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratrynoun

   people descended from a common ancestor

   "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. phratrynoun

   A former kinship division consisting of two or more distinct clans with separate identities but considered to be a single unit.

2. Etymology: φρατρία, "brotherhood" or "kinfolk".

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1. Phratry

   In ancient Greece, a phratry (Ancient Greek: φρᾱτρῐ́ᾱ, romanized: phrātríā, lit. 'brotherhood, kinfolk', derived from Ancient Greek: φρᾱ́τηρ, romanized: phrā́tēr, lit. 'brother') was a group containing citizens in some city-states. Their existence is known in most Ionian cities and in Athens and it is thought that they existed elsewhere as well. Almost nothing is known about the functions and responsibilities of phratries outside Attica (the area around Athens). Within Athens, they played a prominent role in social and religious life, particularly in the major festival called the Apatouria. They played an important role in determining eligibility for Athenian citizenship and all citizens (with very few exceptions) and only citizens were enrolled in phratries. Particularly in anthropology, the term is also applied to similar descent groups of multiple clans in other societies.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Phratrynoun

   a subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens

2. Etymology: [Gr. , .]

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1. Phratry

   In ancient Greece, a phratry was a social division of the Greek tribe. The nature of these phratries is, in the words of one historian, "the darkest problem among the [Greek] social institutions." Little is known about the role they played in Greek social life, but they existed from the Greek Dark Ages until the 2nd century BC; Homer refers to them several times, in passages that appear to describe the social environment of his times. In Athens, enrollment in a phratry seems to have been the basic requirement for citizenship in the state before the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC. From their peak of prominence in the Dark Ages, when they appear to have been a substantial force in Greek social life, phratries gradually declined in significance throughout the classical period as other groups gained influence at their cost. Phratries contained smaller kin groups called gene; these appear to have arisen later than phratries, and it appears that not all members of phratries belonged to a genos; membership in these smaller groups may have been limited to elites. On an even smaller level, the basic kinship group of ancient Greek societies was the oikos.

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1. Phratry

   frā′tri, n. a clan: a brotherhood—also Phrā′tria.—adj. Phrā′tric. [Gr. phratēr, a brother.]

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of phratry in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of phratry in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=phratry
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Phratry
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phratry
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phratry
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=phratry
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=phratry