| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | phra·try |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  fr  tr |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: 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. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Greek phrtri, from phrtr, phrtr-, fellow member of a clan. See bhrter- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | phratric —ADJECTIVE
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