regimen

regimen

See also: Regimen, regímen, and régimen

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin regimen (“guidance, direction, government, rule”). Doublet of regime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.mən/

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Noun

regimen (plural regimens or regimina)

1. Orderly government; system of order; administration.
2. (medicine) Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
   • 1832, The Edinburgh Review (page 470)

     Seven or eight annual bloodings, and as many purgations — such was the common regimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health […]

   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 1000392275, page 229:

     ...and, having an excellent constitution, regularly attributed any temporary ailment of her daughters to carelessness, for which she prescribed "water gruel, and keeping in bed," being certain that under so safe a regimen, "they would get well as soon as possible, and learn to keep well also."

3. (grammar) object
   • The Popular Educator. A Complete Encyclopaedia of Elementary, Advanced, and Technical Education. New and Revised Edition. Volume III., page 394 (Lessions in French.---LVIII. § 42.---Of Verbs):

     (3.) Verbs admit two kinds of regimen: the direct regimen and the indirect regimen. (4.) The direct regimen, or immediate object [...] (5.) The indirect regimen, or remote object [....]

   • 1828, J. V. Douville, The Speaking French Grammar, forming a series of sixty explanatory lessons, with colloquial essays, third edition, London, page 84 and 315:

     Active verbs express an action which an agent, called the nominative or subject, performs on an object or regimen, without the help of a preposition: as,--- Pierre aime Sophie, Peter loves Sophia. [...] Of the Object or Regimen of Verbs.

   • 1831 and 1854, A. Bolmar, A Book of the French Verbs, Wherein the Model Verbs, and Several of the Most Difficult Are Conjugated Affirmatively, Negatively, Interrogatively, an Negatively and Interrogatively. and A Book of the French Verbs, Wherein the Model Verbs, and Several of the Most Difficult Are Conjugated Affirmatively, Negatively, Interrogatively, an Negatively and Interrogatively. A New Edition, Philadelphia, page 2:

     15. A verb is active in French when it expresses that an agent called nominative, or subject, performs an action on an object, or regimen, without the help of a preposition---as, Jean frappe Joseph, John strikes Joseph, &c.

   • 1847, M. Josse, A Grammar of the Spanish Language with Practical Exercises. First Part, page 51:

     Pronouns may be nominatives, and of the direct or indirect regimen.

4. (grammar) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
5. (medicine, dated) Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.

Related terms

• régime
• regime
• regiminal

Translations

orderly government; system of order; administration

Bashkir: тәртип (tärtip) Bulgarian: режим (bg) m (režim), управление (bg) n (upravlenie) Finnish: hallintojärjestelmä Galician: réxime m Portuguese: regime (pt) m

any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation

Bulgarian: диета (bg) f (dieta), режим (bg) m (režim) Catalan: règim (ca) Finnish: hoito-ohjelma, ohjelma (fi) French: régime (fr) Greek: σχήμα (el) n (schíma) Ancient: δίαιτα f (díaita) Italian: regime (it) Latin: diaeta f Portuguese: regime (pt) m Spanish: régimen (es)

grammar: object — See also translations at object

French: (please verify) régime (fr) Portuguese: regime (pt) m Spanish: (please verify) régimen (es)

A syntactical relation between words

Bulgarian: рекция f (rekcija) Russian: управление (ru) n (upravlenije)

Further reading

• regimen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• regimen in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Anagrams

• germine, mereing, reeming

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Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin regimen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [reˈɡimɛn]
• Hyphenation: ré‧gi‧mèn

Noun

régimèn (first-person possessive regimenku, second-person possessive regimenmu, third-person possessive regimennya)

1. (medicine) regimen: any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.

Alternative forms

• rejimen

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Latin

Etymology

From regō (“I rule”, “I direct”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.ɡi.men/, [ˈrɛɡɪmɛn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.d͡ʒi.men/, [ˈrɛːd͡ʒimen]

Noun

regimen n (genitive regiminis); third declension

1. control, steering
2. directing
3. rule; governance

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	regimen	regimina
Genitive	regiminis	regiminum
Dative	regiminī	regiminibus
Accusative	regimen	regimina
Ablative	regimine	regiminibus
Vocative	regimen	regimina

Descendants

• → English: regimen, regime, realm
• French: royaume, régime
• Friulian: ream
• Italian: regime
• Norman: régînme
• Old French: reiaume, reialme
• Old Occitan: regeme, reialme
  • Occitan: reialme
• Piedmontese: regim
• → Portuguese: regime
• → Romanian: regim
• Romansch: reginam, raginam
• Sicilian: riggimi
• → Spanish: régimen

References

• “regimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “regimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• regimen 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)
• “regimen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Swedish

Noun

regimen

1. definite singular of regim.