régime

régime

See also: regime, Regime, and régimé

English

Noun

régime (plural régimes)

1. Alternative spelling of regime
   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, pages 5^{1} and 46^{2} (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN

     ^{1} There are many “Foucaults” — whether they are all texts, or features in a network of institutional power, a régime of truth and knowledge, or the discourse of the author and his works.

     ^{2} Personalities like Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) silenced condemnation of madness. He abolished régimes of silence that reformers had employed. He made the mad talk. But he also developed the structure which included the medical personage — him — as omnipotent and quasi-divine.

Anagrams

• emigre, emigré, émigré

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin regimen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.ʒim/

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Noun

régime m (plural régimes)

1. regime
2. (politics) kind of political system; regimen
3. (grammar) regimen
4. (technical) operating mode

   régime de maintenance ― maintenance mode

5. (dietetics, nutrition) diet
6. (botany) clump of fruits on the end of a branch (in palms, bananas, etc)

Synonyms

• diète

Derived terms

• Ancien Régime
• ancien régime
• à plein régime
• baisse de régime
• cas régime
• faire régime
• régime moteur

 

Related terms

• régiment
• royaume

Descendants

• → English: regime, régime
• → German: Regime
• → Romanian: regim
• → Russian: режи́м m (režím), режи́мъ (režím)
  • → Azerbaijani: rejim
  • → Kazakh: режим (rejim)
• → Turkish: rejim

Verb

régime

1. inflection of régimer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “régime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• émigre, émigré, rémige