regimen
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin regimen (“guidance, direction, government, rule”). Doublet of regime.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editregimen (plural regimens or regimina)
- Orderly government; system of order; administration.
- (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."
- (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.
- 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):
- (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)
- (medicine, dated) Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.
Derived terms
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editTranslations
editorderly government; system of order; administration
any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation
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grammar: object — see also object
a syntactical relation between words
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diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons — see diet
Further reading
edit- “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
editIndonesian
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin regimen.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editrégimèn (first-person possessive regimenku, second-person possessive regimenmu, third-person possessive regimennya)
- (medicine) regimen: any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
Alternative forms
editLatin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom regō (“I rule”, “I direct”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈre.ɡi.men/, [ˈrɛɡɪmɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈre.d͡ʒi.men/, [ˈrɛːd͡ʒimen]
Noun
editregimen n (genitive regiminis); third declension
Declension
editThird-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
editReferences
edit- “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
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editregimen
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