Definitions for phratries

phratries phra·try

Spelling: [frey-tree]
IPA: /ˈfreɪ tri/

Phratries is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 677 anagrams from letters in phratries (aehiprrst).

Definitions for phratries

noun

  1. a grouping of clans or other social units within a tribe.
  2. (in ancient Greece) a subdivision of a phyle.

Origin of phratries

1745-55; Greek phrātría, equivalent to phrātr-, stem of phrātḗr clansman (akin to brother) + -ia -y3

Examples for phratries

The Mexican phratry was largely concerned with military matters.

Some members of the Wolf phratry assert a right to the Eagle crest.

It was the basis of the phratry, of the tribe, and of the confederacy of tribes.

A person would be described as of such a gens, phratry, and tribe.

Each class has a choice between the two classes of the other phratry.

It is somewhat difficult to understand just what the rights and duties of a phratry were.

The mother gens was distinguished from these as the phratry.

In other words, the phratry is like a species of which the clans are varieties.

It is true that in both cases the offer must come from the other phratry.

They were in both phratries; the other totems were confined to one or the other phratry.

Word Value for phratries
Scrable

15

Words with friends

14

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