regime

See also: Regime, régime, and régimé

Contents

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• régime

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɹəˈʒim/, /ˈɹeɪʒim/

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from French régime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”).

NounEdit

regime (plural regimes)

1. Mode of rule or management.
2. A form of government, or the government in power (as in a socialist regime).
3. A period of rule.
4. A regulated system; a regimen.
   • 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:

     It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].

5. (hydrology) A set of characteristics.

   A typical annual water level regime would include a gradual summer drawdown beginning in early May.

Usage notesEdit

• When regime is used in the sense of form of government, it is often meant as a pejorative, and may imply an authoritarian or illegitimate government.

Derived termsEdit

• exercise regime
• political regime
• regime change

Related termsEdit

• regimen

TranslationsEdit

mode of rule or management

• Catalan: règim m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: režim (cs) m
• Esperanto: reĝimo
• Finnish: hallintomuoto (fi)
• French: régime (fr) m
• Georgian: რეჟიმი (režimi)
• German: Regime (de) n
• Greek: σύστημα (el) n (sýstima), διοίκηση (el) f (dioíkisi)
• Hungarian: rezsim (hu)

• Indonesian: rezim (id)
• Macedonian: режим m (réžim)
• Norman: régînme m
• Persian: رژیم‏‎ (fa) (režim)
• Polish: reżim (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: regime (pt) m
• Russian: режи́м (ru) m (režím)
• Spanish: régimen (es) m
• Vietnamese: chế độ (vi)
• Welsh: cyfundrefn (cy) f

form of government

• Albanian: regjim (sq) m
• Arabic: نِظَام‏‎ (ar) m (niẓām)
• Armenian: ռեժիմ (hy) (ṙežim)
• Azeri: rejim
• Belarusian: рэжы́м m (režým)
• Bulgarian: режи́м (bg) m (režím)
• Catalan: règim m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 政權 (zh), 政权 (zh) (zhèngquán)

• Czech: režim (cs) m
• Danish: regime
• Estonian: kord (et)
• Finnish: hallintojärjestelmä, hallitusmuoto (fi)
• French: régime (fr) m
• Georgian: რეჟიმი (režimi)
• German: Regime (de) n
• Greek: καθεστώς (el) n (kathestós), πολίτευμα (el) n (polítevma)
• Hungarian: rezsim (hu)
• Indonesian: rezim (id)
• Italian: regime (it) m
• Japanese: 政権 (ja) (せいけん, seiken), 体制 (ja) (たいせい, taisei)
• Kazakh: режим (kk) (rejïm)
• Korean: 정권 (ko) (jeonggwon)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: rejîm (ku)

  Sorani: ڕژێم‏‎

• Kyrgyz: режим (recim)

• Latvian: režīms (lv) m
• Lithuanian: režimas m, santvarka f
• Macedonian: режим m (režim)
• Malay: rejim
• Norman: régînme m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: regime n

  Nynorsk: regime n

• Persian: رژیم‏‎ (fa) (režim)
• Polish: reżim (pl) m inan, reżym m inan, ustrój (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: regime (pt) m
• Romanian: regim (ro) n
• Russian: режи́м (ru) m (režím)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: режим m

  Roman: režim (sh) m

• Slovak: režim m
• Slovene: režim (sl) m
• Spanish: régimen (es) m
• Swedish: regim (sv) c
• Tajik: режим (režim)
• Turkish: rejim (tr)
• Turkmen: režim
• Ukrainian: режи́м m (režým)
• Uzbek: rejim (uz)
• Vietnamese: chế độ (vi)

period of rule

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: hallintokausi, valtakausi (fi)
• French: régime (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Regime (de) n
• Hungarian: rezsim (hu)

• Indonesian: rezim (id)
• Macedonian: режим m (režim)
• Norman: régînme m
• Portuguese: regime (pt) m
• Russian: режи́м (ru) m (režím)
• Spanish: régimen (es) m
• Vietnamese: chế độ (vi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} regime (nl)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} reĝimo
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} regime (it)

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} regimen nominative, ^{(please verify)} regiminis genitive
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} régimen (es) m, ^{(please verify)} regímenes m pl

Further readingEdit

• regime in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• regime in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

AnagramsEdit

• emigre, émigré

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

regime n (plural regimes, diminutive regimetje n)

1. regime
2. regimen, diet

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin regimen.

NounEdit

regime m (plural regimi)

1. regime, régime
2. regimen

SynonymsEdit

• dieta

Related termsEdit

• regimare

AnagramsEdit

• emergi
• emigre

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

NounEdit

regime n (definite singular regimet, indefinite plural regimer, definite plural regima / regimene)

1. a regime (form of government)

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

NounEdit

regime n (definite singular regimet, indefinite plural regime, definite plural regima)

1. a regime (form of government)

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PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Latin regimen. Doublet of regímen.

NounEdit

regime m (plural regimes)

1. regime (mode of rule or management)
2. regime (form of government)
3. regime (period of rule)
4. diet (controlled regimen of food and drink)

SynonymsEdit

• (diet): dieta

Related termsEdit

• regimento