regimen

See also: Regimen, regímen, and régimen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regimen (“guidance, direction, government, rule”), from regō (“I rule, I direct”). Doublet of regime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdʒ.ɪ.mən/

• Audio (US):

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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 […]

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, third edition, London, page 84 and 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 and 1854, 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. and 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, 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.
5. (medicine, dated) Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.

Related terms

• régime
• regime

• regiminal

Translations

orderly government; system of order; administration

• Bashkir: тәртип (tərtip)
• Finnish: hallintojärjestelmä
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Galician: réxime m
• Portuguese: regime (pt) m

any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation

• Finnish: ohje (fi)
• French: régime (fr)
• Greek: σχήμα (el) n (schíma)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: regime (it)
• Latin: diaeta f
• Portuguese: regime (pt) m
• Spanish: régimen (es)

grammar: object — see also object

• French: ^{(please verify)} régime (fr)
• Portuguese: regime (pt) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} régimen (es)

A syntactical relation between words

• Russian: управление (ru) n (upravlenije)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

References

• “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

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈre.ɡi.men/, [ˈrɛɡɪmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.d͡ʒi.men/, [ˈrɛːd͡ʒimen]

Noun

regimen n (genitive regiminis); third declension

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

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	regimen	regimina
Genitive	regiminis	regiminum
Dative	regiminī	regiminibus
Accusative	regimen	regimina
Ablative	regimine	regiminibus
Vocative	regimen	regimina

Descendants

• English: regimen, regime, realm
• French: royaume, régime
• Friulian: ream
• Italian: regime
• Norman: régînme
• Old French: reiaume, reialme

• Old Occitan: regeme, reialme
• Occitan: reialme
• Portuguese: regime
• Romansch: reginam, raginam
• Spanish: régimen

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

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Swedish

Noun

regimen

1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of regim