consortium

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsortium.

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

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /kənˈsoɹ.ʃəm/, /kənˈsoɹ.ti.əm/, [kənˈsoɹ.ɾi.əm]
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /kənˈsoː.ʃəm/, /kənˈsoː.ti.əm/
• Hyphenation: con‧sor‧ti‧um

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.

   Synonyms: coalition, alliance, syndicate

2. A similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions or organizations.
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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

joint venture

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): [kõːˈsɔr.ti.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈsɔr.t͡si.um]

From 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, 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.