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regimen

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See also: Regimen, regímen, and régimen

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English regimen, from Middle French regimen and its etymon, Latin regimen (“guidance, direction, government, rule”).[1][2] Doublet of regime.

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Noun

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regimen (plural regimens or regimina)

  1. Orderly government; system of order; administration.
    • 2020 November 23, Shauna Farnell, “Ski patrollers shave their beards, and a tradition, to wear N95 masks.”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 20 July 2023:
      In ski areas like Arapahoe Basin, about 80 percent of the male patrollers have had to drastically change (or introduce) shaving regimens.
  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 […]
    • 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."
  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, 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.
  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.
    Synonyms: government, rection (archaic)
    Coordinate terms: agreement, concord, concordance (obsolete)
  5. (medicine, dated) Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.

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References

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  1. ^ “regimen, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ^ “reǧimen, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin regimen.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [reˈɡimɛn]
  • Hyphenation: ré‧gi‧mèn

Noun

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régimèn (plural regimen-regimen)

  1. (medicine) regimen: any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation

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Latin

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti
Proto-Italic *regō
Latin regō
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Italic *-mn̥
Latin -men
Latin regimen

    From regō (“to rule; to direct”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).

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    Noun

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    regimen n (genitive regiminis); third declension

    1. control, steering
    2. guiding, governing, directing; rule, guidance, government, command
      Synonyms: diciō, ductus, auctōritās, arbītrium, imperium, potestās, regimentum

    Declension

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

    singular plural
    nominative regimen regimina
    genitive regiminis regiminum
    dative regiminī regiminibus
    accusative regimen regimina
    ablative regimine regiminibus
    vocative regimen regimina

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    References

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    • “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, 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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    Noun

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    regimen

    1. definite singular of regim
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