consortium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin consortium, from consors, consortis.

Pronunciation

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

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.

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, 企业联盟 (qǐyè liánméng), 聯盟／联盟 (zh) (liánméng), 联盟 (zh) (liánméng)

• Czech: konsorcium n
• Dutch: consortium (nl) n
• Finnish: konsortio (fi)
• French: consortium (fr) m
• German: Konsortium (de) n
• Hungarian: konzorcium (hu)
• Italian: consorzio (it) m
• Japanese: コンソーシアム (konsōshiamu)
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• Latin: consortium n
• Manx: co-heshaght argidagh f
• Norwegian: konsortium n
• Polish: konsorcjum (pl) n
• Portuguese: consórcio m
• Russian: консо́рциум (ru) m (konsórcium)
• Slovene: konzorcij
• Spanish: consorcio (es) m
• Swedish: konsortium (sv) n
• Turkish: birliktelik (tr)
• Ukrainian: консорціум m (konsorcium)
• Vietnamese: côngxoocxiom, công-xoóc-xi-om

similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions

• Finnish: konsortio (fi)
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• Latin: consortium n
• Portuguese: consórcio m, associação (pt) f

association or society

• Portuguese: associação (pt) f
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legal right

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin consortium, from consors, consortis.

Pronunciation

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Noun

consortium m (plural consortiums)

1. consortium (association, arrangement)
2. cartel

Derived terms

• consortial

Related terms

• consort

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) cōnsortium

1. genitive masculine plural of cōnsors
2. genitive feminine plural of cōnsors
3. genitive neuter plural of cōnsors

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.