consortium

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *ser-

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *sértis

Proto-Italic *sortis

Latin sors

Latin cōnsors

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

Latin -ium

Latin cōnsortiumlbor.

English consortium

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsortium.

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

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

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.

   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.

Derived terms

• loss of consortium
• microconsortium

Related terms

• consort

Translations

association or combination of businesses

• Albanian: konsorcium m
• Arabic: اِتِّحَاد مَالِيّ m (ittiḥād māliyy), اِئْتِلَاف شَرِكَات m (iʔtilāf šarikāt)
• Armenian: կոնսորցիում (hy) (konsorcʻium), համընկերություն (hamənkerutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: konsorsium
• Belarusian: кансо́рцыум m (kansórcyum)
• Bulgarian: консо́рциум m (konsórcium)
• 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
• Danish: konsortium (da) n
• Dutch: consortium (nl) n
• Estonian: konsortsium
• Finnish: yhtymä (fi), yhteenliittymä (fi), konsortio (fi)
• French: consortium (fr) m
• Georgian: კონსორციუმი (ḳonsorciumi)
• German: Konsortium (de) n, Kooperation (de) f
• Greek: κονσόρτσιουμ (el) n (konsórtsioum)
• Hungarian: konzorcium (hu)
• Indonesian: konsorsium (id)
• Italian: consorzio (it) m
• Japanese: コンソーシアム (konsōshiamu)
• Kazakh: консорциум (konsorcıyuwm)
• Korean: 연합체(聯合體) (yeonhapche), 컨소시엄 (keonsosieom)
• Kyrgyz: консорциум (konsortsium)
• Latin: consortium n
• Latvian: konsorcijs m
• Lithuanian: konsorciumas m
• Macedonian: конзорциум m (konzorcium)
• Malay: konsortium
• Manx: co-heshaght argidagh f
• Māori: tōpūtanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konsortium n

• Persian: کُنسُرسیوم (fa) (konsorsyum)
• Polish: konsorcjum (pl) n
• Portuguese: consórcio (pt) m
• Romanian: consorțiu (ro) n
• Russian: консо́рциум (ru) m (konsórcium)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̀нзо̄рцӣј m, конзорцијум m

  Latin: kònzōrcīj (sh) m, konzorcijum m

• Slovak: konzorcium n
• Slovene: konzorcij m
• Spanish: consorcio (es) m
• Swedish: konsortium (sv) n
• Tajik: консортсиум (konsortsium), консорсиум (konsorsium)
• Turkish: birliktelik (tr), konsorsiyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: консо́рціум m (konsórcium)
• Uzbek: konsorsium (uz)
• 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 (de) m, Interessengemeinschaft (de) f, Arbeitsgemeinschaft (de) f
• Indonesian: konsorsium (id)
• Latin: consortium n
• Portuguese: consórcio (pt) m, associação (pt) f
• Spanish: consorcio (es) m

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
• Spanish: consorcio (es) m, asociación (es) 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

See also

joint venture

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnsortium, from consors, consortis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sɔʁ.sjɔm/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *ser-

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *sértis

Proto-Italic *sortis

Latin sors

Latin cōnsors

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

Latin -ium

Latin cōnsortium

From cōnsors (“shared, common”) + -ium.

Noun

cōnsortium n (genitive cōnsortiī or cōnsortī); second declension

1. fellowship, participation, society

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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, 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.