Phyle

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There are several things that have the name Phyle (Greek φυλή, clan, race, people, derived from ancient Greek φυεσθαι - to descend, to originate):

  • Phyle is an ethnological and sociological term for a tribe, particularly in ancient Greece.
    • derived from this, an ancient name of Fyli
  • A sociological analog of a biological phyla, mentioned in a novel The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson which includes three great tribes.