consortium

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /kənˈsɔː.ʃəm/|/kənˈsɔː.ti.əm/    美 /kənˈsoɹ.ʃəm/|/kənˈsoɹ.ti.əm/|[kənˈsoɹ.ɾi.əm]|/kənˈsoː.ʃəm/|/kənˈsoː.ti.əm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — We wanted to share that kind thought with you because today, November 13, is "World Kindness Day" — created back in 1998 by a consortium of kindhearted charities.
  3. An association or society.
  4. The right of a spouse to all the normal relationships with his or her mate.
  5. A group of symbiotic microbes.

词形变化

consortia plural consortiums plural

词汇关系

衍生词
loss of consortium microconsortium
相关词
consort

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.
Proto-Italic *sortis
Latin sors
Latin cōnsors
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin cōnsortiumlbor.
English consortium
Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsortium.
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