different between relationship vs consortium

English

Etymology

From relation +? -ship.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???le??(?)n??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???le???n???p/
• Hyphenation: re?la?tion?ship

Noun

relationship (plural relationships)

1. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
2. (mathematics) The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.
3. Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
4. A romantic or sexual involvement.
   • 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, "Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty", The Lebanon Daily News

     I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of sexual relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage.

   • 2000, April 8, Dorthea Straus, "Oates on Marilyn: Men, drugs, tragedy", The Baltimore Sun

     Her most satisfying sexual relationship seemed to be a threesome with Charles Chaplin Jr. and Eddy Robinson Jr., the spurned sons of famous film fathers.

5. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
6. (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

Hyponyms

• joking relationship

Derived terms

• entity-relationship diagram
• entity-relationship model
• relationship anarchy
• relationshipless
• relationshiply
• relationshippy
• relationshopping

Translations

See also

• relate
• relation
• relative

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin consortium, from consors, consortis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s??(?).??m/, /k?n?s??(?).ti.?m/

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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin consortium, from consors, consortis.

Pronunciation

Noun

consortium m (plural consortiums)

1. consortium (association, arrangement)
2. cartel

Derived terms

• consortial

Related terms

• consort

Latin

Adjective

c?nsortium

1. genitive masculine plural of c?nsors
2. genitive feminine plural of c?nsors
3. genitive neuter plural of c?nsors

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, 1883–1887)
• consortium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette