Noun:

இன மரபுக் குழுவில் சமுதாய இனங்களை ஒன்று சேர்த்தல், குல முறைப் பிரிவு,

phratry's Usage Examples:

With regard to the jurisdiction of the council in cases of homicide, the procedure, so far as it may be gathered from the orators and other sources, was as follows: - accusations were brought by relatives within the circle of brothers' and sisters' children, supported by the wider kin and the phratry (Demosth.

phratry clans were joined together in 12 unnamed exogamous phratries.

Traces of this union of immigrants with older inhabitants have been detected in the combination of Zeus Herkeios with Apollo Patrons as the ancient gods of the phratry.

It is indeed just possible that the term may originally have signified "true member of a clan," since membership of a phratry was a characteristic of each clan ('y vos).

Synonyms:

sept, lineage, kinfolk, name, house, family, people, parentage, origin, stemma, gens, pedigree, blood line, line of descent, line, homefolk, dynasty, descent, folk, blood, family line, kinsfolk, stock, ancestry, bloodline,

Antonyms:

purebred, crossbred, disrepute, parent, child,