phylé

German - Turkish

Definition of phylé in German Turkish dictionary: lit. "tribe;" a major political unit at Athens into which the demes were divided under the Cleisthenic reforms; the basis of organization for the boulé, the military, and the choruses at the dithyrambic festivals at the Greater Dionysia

English - Turkish

English - English

Definition of phylé in English English dictionary
phyle: A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe
phyle: a tribe of ancient Athenians
phyle: Any of several tribes that formed the largest political subgroups in all Dorian and most Ionian Greek city-states. Phylae were simultaneously kinship groups, corporations with their own officials and priests, and local units for administrative and military purposes. Athens's original four phylae were replaced by 10 under a reorganization (508/507 BC) initiated by Cleisthenes; Sparta's original three were supplanted by five in the 8th century BC

French - English

phylé

Etymology

[ 'fI-(")lE ] (noun.) 1863. Greek phylE tribe, phyle.

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