regimen

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, 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, 3rd edition, London, page 84 & 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, 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.”, in 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, published 1854, 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.

   Synonyms: government, rection (archaic)

   Coordinate terms: agreement, concord, concordance (obsolete)

5. (medicine, dated) Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.

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Further reading

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

Anagrams

• germine, mereing, reeming

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin regimen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• 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

Latin

Alternative forms

• reg. (abbreviation)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.ɡi.men/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.d͡ʒi.men/,

Noun

regimen n (genitive regiminis); third declension

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

Declension

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

Descendants

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

Swedish

Noun

regimen

1. definite singular of regim