phratry

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.

An exogamous subdivision of the tribe, constituting two or more related clans.

A brotherhood or clan; specifically, in the states of ancient Greece, a politico-religious group of citizens, which appears to have been originally based on kinship and to have been a subdivision of the phyle or tribe.

A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.

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

people descended from a common ancestor