consortium Latin · revision 33136

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=59 BC–17 AD, Livy|origins=ine-pro *sr-ti-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kõːˈsɔr.ti.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [konˈsɔr.t͡si.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnsortium''' ''n'' (genitive cōnsortiī or cōnsortī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cōnsors|-ium|t1=sharing, partner]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) That adjective joins [[m|la|con-]] and [[m|la|sors|t=lot, share]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*sorti-|t=joining, joint]] and [[ine-pro|*sr-ti-]], from the root of [[m|la|serō|t=to join]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in Livy, who writes of a share and partnership in the commonwealth.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the sharing of property, as between brothers in the Digest, and a community of life, as Seneca writes of being taken into partnership.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) With a genitive it is a sharing or partnership in something, and Tacitus uses it by metonymy for the wife who shares prosperity and adversity.^(OLD 2012) Columella has it of close association, and it is also a conjunction of stars.^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that Christians were fond of the word.^(TLL) Stelten gives “company, partnership, union, fellowship”,^(Stelten 1995) and in Medieval Latin it is joint ownership, living together, the dependants of one lord, and the community of a town's burgesses.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of partnership in the state.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of a community of life.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of a wife as a partner.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Sharing of property; community of life.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A sharing, [[m|en|partnership]], fellowship; a partner.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A close connection, association; a conjunction of stars.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Joint ownership; the dependants of a lord; the [[m|en|community]] of a town.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[consortālis]]

+ * [[cōnsortiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cōnsors]]

+ * [[sors]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}