consortĭo, ōnis, f. [consors, II.],
I fellowship, community, partnership, association (rare, but in good prose): omnis humana dissolvetur, Cic. Off. 3, 6, 26: sociabilis inter binos Lacedaemoniorum reges, Liv. 40, 8, 12; cf.: tribuniciae potestatis, Vell. 2, 99, 1; 2, 103, 2; and wholly absol. : quaenam ista societas, quaenam consortio est? Liv. 6, 40, 18 (v. the passage in connection): fati, Val. Max. 4, 6, 3: (animalia terrestria) hominum quādam consortione degentia, Plin. 9, 1, 1, § 1.—
II Transf., of things: stomachus, cui cum vesicā quaedam consortio est, sympathy, sympathetic connection , Cels. 7, 27, 15.