English Online Dictionary. What means consortium? What does consortium mean?
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsortium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈsɔː(ɹ).ʃəm/, /kənˈsɔː(ɹ).ti.əm/
Noun
consortium (plural consortia or consortiums)
- An association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture.
- A similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions or organizations.
- An association or society.
- (law) The right of a spouse to all the normal relationships with his or her mate.
- (biology) A group of symbiotic microbes.
Derived terms
Related terms
- consort
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cōnsortium, from consors, consortis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.sɔʁ.sjɔm/
Noun
consortium m (plural consortiums)
- consortium (association, arrangement)
- cartel
Derived terms
- consortial
Related terms
- consort
Further reading
- “consortium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kõːˈsɔr.ti.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [konˈsɔr.t̪͡s̪i.um]
Etymology 1
cōnsors (“shared, common”) + -ium
Noun
cōnsortium n (genitive cōnsortiī or cōnsortī); second declension
- fellowship, participation, society
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
cōnsortium
- genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of cōnsors
Descendants
- → Catalan: consorci
- → Italian: consorzio
- → Old Catalan: consòrcia
- Catalan: conxorxa
- → Portuguese: consórcio
- → Romanian: consorțiu
- → Spanish: consorcio
References
- “consortium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “consortium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "consortium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- consortium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.