consortium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin consortium, from consors, consortis.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

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.

Derived terms

• loss of consortium

Related terms

• consort

Translations

association or combination of businesses

• Belarusian: кансорцыум m (kansórcyum)
• Catalan: consorci (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 企業聯盟／企业联盟 (qǐyè liánméng), 財團／财团 (zh) (cáituán), 聯盟／联盟 (zh) (liánméng)

• Czech: konsorcium (cs) n
• Dutch: consortium (nl) n
• Finnish: yhtymä (fi), yhteenliittymä (fi), konsortio (fi)
• French: consortium (fr) m
• German: Konsortium (de) n, Kooperation (de) f
• Hungarian: konzorcium (hu)
• Indonesian: konsorsium (id)
• Italian: consorzio (it) m
• Japanese: コンソーシアム (konsōshiamu)
• Kazakh: консорциум (konsorsium)
• Korean: 연합체(聯合體) (yeonhapche), 컨소시엄 (keonsosieom)
• Kyrgyz: консорциум (konsortsium)
• Latin: consortium n
• Manx: co-heshaght argidagh f
• Norwegian: konsortium n
• Persian: کنسرسیوم‎ (fa)
• Polish: konsorcjum (pl) n
• Portuguese: consórcio (pt) m
• Russian: консо́рциум (ru) m (konsórcium)
• Slovene: konzorcij
• Spanish: consorcio (es) m
• Swedish: konsortium (sv) n
• Turkish: birliktelik (tr), konsorsiyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: консорціум m (konsorcium)
• Vietnamese: côngxoocxiom, công-xoóc-xi-om

similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聯盟／联盟 (zh) (liánméng)

• Finnish: yhdistys (fi), liitto (fi), yhteenliittymä (fi), yhtymä (fi), konsortio (fi)
• French: consortium (fr) m
• German: Interessenverband m, Interessengemeinschaft (de) f, Arbeitsgemeinschaft (de) f
• Indonesian: konsorsium (id)
• Latin: consortium n
• Portuguese: consórcio (pt) m, associação (pt) f

association or society

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: yhdistys (fi), seura (fi)
• French: consortium (fr) m
• German: Bund (de) m, Verband (de) m, Gesellschaft (de) f
• Portuguese: associação (pt) f

legal right

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: puolison oikeus toisen kumppanuuteen (no equivalent exists in Finnish law)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: eheliches Recht n
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin consortium, from consors, consortis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sɔʁ.sjɔm/

• Audio

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Noun

consortium m (plural consortiums)

1. consortium (association, arrangement)
2. 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) IPA^(key): /konˈsor.ti.um/, [kõːˈs̠ɔrt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈsor.t͡si.um/, [konˈsɔrt̪͡s̪ium]

Etymology 1

cōnsors (“shared, common”) +‎ -ium

Noun

cōnsortium n (genitive cōnsortiī or cōnsortī); second declension

1. fellowship, participation, society

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnsortium	cōnsortia
Genitive	cōnsortiī cōnsortī1	cōnsortiōrum
Dative	cōnsortiō	cōnsortiīs
Accusative	cōnsortium	cōnsortia
Ablative	cōnsortiō	cōnsortiīs
Vocative	cōnsortium	cōnsortia

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

cōnsortium

1. 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