regiment

See also Regiment, and régiment

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɹɛdʒɪmənt/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

regiment (plural regiments)

1. (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, XXXIII:

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

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:

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

   • 1832, John Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, 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?

2. (obsolete) The state or office of a ruler; rulership. [14th-17th c.]
3. (obsolete) Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet). [14th-17th c.]
4. (obsolete) A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain. [14th-17th c.]
5. (obsolete, medicine) A regimen. [15th-19th c.]
6. (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.]
   • 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, III:

     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.

Translations

army unit

• Catalan: regiment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 團

  Mandarin: 團 (cmn), 团 (cmn) (tuán), 軍團 (cmn), 军团 (cmn) (jūntuán)

• Czech: pluk (cs) m
• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: rykmentti (fi)
• French: régiment (fr) m
• German: Regiment (de) n
• Greek: σύνταγμα (el) (sýntagma) n
• Hungarian: ezred (hu)

• Indonesian: resimen (id)
• Japanese: 連隊 (ja) (れんたい, rentai)
• Jèrriais: régînment m
• Khmer: កងវរសេនាធំ (km) (kong voreak sena thom)
• Polish: pułk (pl)
• Portuguese: regimento (pt) m
• Romanian: regiment (ro) n
• Russian: полк (ru) (polk) m
• Spanish: regimiento (es) m
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

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.
2. (transitive) To systematize, or put in rigid order.

Anagrams

• metering

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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: /ˈrɛɡimɛnt/
• Hyphenation: re‧gi‧ment

Noun

regiment (plural regimentek)

1. (archaic) regiment

Declension

declension of regiment 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

possessives of regiment possessor singular possession plural possession 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

Synonyms

• ezred

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Vilamovian

Noun

regiment n

1. (military) regiment