consortium

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsortium.

• IPA^(key): /kənˈsɔː(ɹ).ʃəm/, /kənˈsɔː(ɹ).ti.əm/

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consortium (plural consortia or consortiums)

1. An association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture.
2. A similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions or organizations.
3. An association or society.
4. (law) The right of a spouse to all the normal relationships with his or her mate.
5. (biology) A group of symbiotic microbes.

• consort

Borrowed from Latin cōnsortium, from consors, consortis.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sɔʁ.sjɔm/

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consortium m (plural consortiums)

1. consortium (association, arrangement)
2. cartel

• consortial

• consort

• “consortium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈsor.ti.um/, [kõːˈs̠ɔrt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈsor.t͡si.um/, [konˈsɔrt̪͡s̪ium]

cōnsors (“shared, common”) +‎ -ium

cōnsortium n (genitive cōnsortiī or cōnsortī); second declension

1. fellowship, participation, society

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cōnsortium

1. genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of cōnsors

• → Catalan: consorci
• → Italian: consorzio
• → Old Catalan: consòrcia
  • Catalan: conxorxa
• → Portuguese: consórcio
• → Romanian: consorțiu
• → Spanish: consorcio

• “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.