regiment

regiment

See also: Regiment and régiment

English

Etymology

From Middle French regement, régiment, and its source, Late Latin regimentum (“direction for government; course of medical treatment”), from Latin regō (“rule”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdʒɪmənt/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

regiment (plural regiments)

1. (military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units; now specifically, usually composed of two or more battalions. [from 16th c.]
   • 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter III, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, OCLC 561617680, page 65:

     It was an old, withered man, who had served the Government in the days of the Mutiny as a native officer in a newly raised cavalry regiment.

   • 2005, Nicholas Watt & Michael White, The Guardian, 28 April 2005:

     As the prime minister insisted that he had "never told a lie" in his life, the Tory leader attacked him for ordering Scottish troops into battle with no warning that their regiments would be disbanded.

2. (now rare, archaic) Rule or governance over a person, place etc.; government, authority. [from 14th c.]
   • 1576, Abraham Fleming, translating Cicero, A Panoplie of Epistles,&bnsp;XXXIII:

     What place is there in all the world, not ſubiect to the regiment and power of this citie?

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, OCLC 932900760, page 116:

     Then loyall loue had royall regiment,
     And each vnto his luſt did make a lawe,
     From all forbidden things his liking to withdraw.

   • 1832, John Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined,&bnsp;VI:

     And how is it possible to distinguish precisely […] the powers of ecclesiastical regiment which none but the church should wield from the powers of ecclesiastical regiment (on the jus circa sacra) which secular and profane governments may handle without sin?

3. (obsolete) The state or office of a ruler; rulership. [14th–17th c.]
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:

     But this it is that doth excruciate
     The verie ſubſtance of my vexed ſoule:
     To ſee our neighbours that were wont to quake
     And tremble at the Perſean Monarkes name,
     Now ſits and laughs our regiment to ſcorne, […]

4. (obsolete) Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet). [14th–17th c.]
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:

     Nature that fram’d vs of foure Elements,
     Warring within our breaſts for regiment,
     Doth teach vs all to haue aſpyring minds:

5. (obsolete) A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain. [14th–17th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, page 324:

     An auncient booke […]
     That of this lands firſt conqueſt did deuize,
     And old diuiſion into Regiments, […]

6. (obsolete, medicine) A regimen. [15th–19th c.]

Translations

army unit

Afrikaans: regiment Albanian: regjiment (sq) m Arabic: فَوْج‎ m (fawj) Armenian: զորագունդ (hy) (zoragund) Azerbaijani: alay (az) Basque: erregimentu Belarusian: полк m (polk) Bengali: রেজিমেন্ট (rejimenṭô) Bulgarian: полк (bg) m (polk) Catalan: regiment (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 團, 团 (tyun4) Mandarin: 團／团 (zh) (tuán), 軍團／军团 (zh) (jūntuán) Czech: pluk (cs) m Danish: regiment n Dutch: regiment (nl) n, afdeling (nl) f Esperanto: regimento Estonian: rügement (et) Finnish: rykmentti (fi) French: régiment (fr) m Galician: rexemento (gl) m Georgian: პოლკი (ṗolḳi), ლეგიონი (legioni) German: Regiment (de) n Greek: σύνταγμα (el) n (sýntagma) Hebrew: רגימנט‎ (he) m (regimént) Hindi: बहुसंख्या m (bahusaṅkhyā), रेजिमेंट f (rejimeṇṭ), पलटन (hi) f (palṭan) Hungarian: ezred (hu) Ido: regimento (io) Indonesian: resimen (id) Irish: reisimint f Italian: reggimento (it) m Japanese: 連隊 (ja) (れんたい, rentai) Kazakh: полк (polk) Khmer: កងវរសេនាធំ (kɑɑng vɔɔ seenaa thom) Korean: 연대(聯隊) (yeondae), 련대(聯隊) (ryeondae) (North Korea) Kyrgyz: полк (polk) Latin: (Classical) cohors f; (Late) regimentum n Latvian: pulks m Lithuanian: pulkas m Macedonian: полк m (polk) Malay: rejimen Maltese: riġment m Maori: hapū hōia Mongolian: хороо (mn) (xoroo) Norman: régînment m Norwegian: Bokmål: regiment n Nynorsk: regiment n Pashto: غونډ‎ (ps) m (ǧwәnḍ) Persian: هنگ‎ (fa) (hang) Polish: pułk (pl) m, regiment (pl) m Portuguese: regimento (pt) m Romanian: regiment (ro) n Russian: полк (ru) m (polk) Scottish Gaelic: rèisimeid f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пуко̀внија f, пук m, регѝме̄нта f Roman: pukòvnija (sh) f, puk (sh) m, regìmēnta (sh) f Slovak: pluk m Slovene: polk (sl) m Spanish: regimiento (es) m Swedish: regemente (sv) n Tagalog: rehimyento Tajik: ҳанг (hang) Tatar: алай (alay) Thai: กรม (th) (grom) Turkish: alay (tr) Turkmen: polk Ukrainian: полк m (polk) Urdu: رجمنٹ‎ f (rejimenṭ) Uyghur: پولك‎ (polk) Uzbek: polk (uz) Vietnamese: trung đoàn (vi) Welsh: catrawd m

Verb

regiment (third-person singular simple present regiments, present participle regimenting, simple past and past participle regimented)

1. (transitive) To form soldiers into a regiment.
   • J. W. Powell

     The people are organized or regimented into bodies, and special functions are relegated to the several units.

2. (transitive) To systematize, or put in rigid order.
   • 2015 March 22, Washington Post, Lee Kuan Yew, who led Singapore into prosperity over 30-year rule, dies at 91‎:

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     The result was a tidy, law-abiding country, but one that visitors often described as regimented, sterile and dull.

Anagrams

• metering

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Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin regimentum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /rə.ʒiˈment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /rə.ʒiˈmen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re.d͡ʒiˈment/
• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

regiment m (plural regiments)

1. regiment

Derived terms

• regimental
• regimentar

Further reading

• “regiment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “regiment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “regiment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “regiment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch regiment. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌreː.ʒiˈmɛnt/

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• Hyphenation: re‧gi‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

regiment n (plural regimenten, diminutive regimentje n)

1. regiment (division of an army)
2. regimen, regime (particular system of enforcing discipline)
3. (obsolete) rulership, governance, rule
   • 1628, Philips Marnix van Sint Aldegonde, "Wilhelmus van Nassouwe", (modern, redacted version), couplet 2.

     Maar God zal mij regeren / als een goed instrument, / dat ik zal wederkeren / in mijnen regiment.

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Derived terms

• cavalerieregiment
• garderegiment
• hofregiment
• infanterieregiment
• pantserregiment
• regimentsadjudant
• regimentsarts
• regimentsboek
• regimentscommandant
• regimentsdokter
• regimentskas
• regimentskind
• regimentsnummer
• regimentsofficier
• regimentsstaf
• reserveregiment
• subsidieregiment
• tankregiment

 

Descendants

• → Indonesian: resimen (“division of an army”)
• → Papiamentu: resjiment

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Hungarian

Etymology

From German Regiment (“regiment”), from Medieval Latin regimentum, from Latin regimen (“rule, direction”), from regō (“I rule”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛɡimɛnt]
• Hyphenation: re‧gi‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

regiment (plural regimentek)

1. (archaic) regiment

   Synonym: ezred

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	regiment	regimentek
accusative	regimentet	regimenteket
dative	regimentnek	regimenteknek
instrumental	regimenttel	regimentekkel
causal-final	regimentért	regimentekért
translative	regimentté	regimentekké
terminative	regimentig	regimentekig
essive-formal	regimentként	regimentekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	regimentben	regimentekben
superessive	regimenten	regimenteken
adessive	regimentnél	regimenteknél
illative	regimentbe	regimentekbe
sublative	regimentre	regimentekre
allative	regimenthez	regimentekhez
elative	regimentből	regimentekből
delative	regimentről	regimentekről
ablative	regimenttől	regimentektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	regimenté	regimenteké
non-attributive possessive - plural	regimentéi	regimentekéi

Possessive forms of regiment
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	regimentem	regimentjeim
2nd person sing.	regimented	regimentjeid
3rd person sing.	regimentje	regimentjei
1st person plural	regimentünk	regimentjeink
2nd person plural	regimentetek	regimentjeitek
3rd person plural	regimentjük	regimentjeik

Further reading

• regiment in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Late Latin regimentum.

Noun

regiment n (definite singular regimentet, indefinite plural regiment or regimenter, definite plural regimenta or regimentene)

1. (military) a regiment

References

• “regiment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Late Latin regimentum.

Noun

regiment n (definite singular regimentet, indefinite plural regiment, definite plural regimenta)

1. (military) a regiment

References

• “regiment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin regimentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈɡi.mɛnt/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -imɛnt
• Syllabification: re‧gi‧ment

Noun

regiment m inan

1. (historical, military) regiment (infantry or cavalry regiment in foreign armies in Poland in the 17th and 18th centuries)

Declension

Declension of regiment

	singular	plural
nominative	regiment	regimenty
genitive	regimentu	regimentów
dative	regimentowi	regimentom
accusative	regiment	regimenty
instrumental	regimentem	regimentami
locative	regimencie	regimentach
vocative	regimencie	regimenty

Derived terms

adjective

• regimentowy

 

nouns

• regimentarka
• regimentarz

 

verb

• regimentować

 

Related terms

adjective

• regimentarski

 

noun

• regimentarstwo

 

verb

• regimentarzować

 

Further reading

• regiment in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• regiment in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

From French régiment.

Noun

regiment n (plural regimente)

1. regiment

Declension

Declension of regiment

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) regiment	regimentul	(niște) regimente	regimentele
genitive/dative	(unui) regiment	regimentului	(unor) regimente	regimentelor
vocative	regimentule		regimentelor

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Vilamovian

Noun

regiment n

1. (military) regiment