régime

See also: regime, Regime, and régimé

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French régime

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 1840460865)

     ^{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, émigré

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin regimen. See also royaume.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ʁe.ʒim/

Noun

régime m (plural régimes)

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

   régime de maintenance ― maintenance mode

5. (dietetics, nutrition) diet

Synonyms

• diète

Related terms

• régiment
• cas régime

Verb

régime

1. first-person singular present indicative of régimer
2. third-person singular present indicative of régimer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of régimer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of régimer
5. second-person singular imperative of régimer

Descendants

• German: Regime
• Russian: режи́м m (režím)

Anagrams

• émigre, émigré, rémige

Further reading

• “régime” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).