different between regime vs regal

English

Alternative forms

• régime

Etymology

Borrowed from French régime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”). Doublet of regimen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????i?m/, /?e???i?m/, /??e??i?m/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Noun

regime (plural regimes)

1. Mode of rule or management.

   a prison regime

2. A form of government, or the government in power.

   a capitalist regime

3. A period of rule.
4. A regulated system; a regimen.

   a fitness regime

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5. A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
6. (hydrology) A set of characteristics.

Usage notes

• When regime is used in the sense of a form or instance of government or state, it is usually meant as a pejorative, and may be intended to brand that government or state as illegitimate or authoritarian. Some usage commentators prescribe that when regime is used in the sense of "a regulated system; a regimen," such as for health or fitness regimens, the word regimen should be used instead. But Garner's Modern English Usage, fourth edition, says that the word regime predominates in that sense in British English and that the word regimen predominates in that sense in American English; this difference suggests that that prescription has been taken up more in America than in Britain.

Derived terms

• exercise regime
• political regime
• regime change

Related terms

• regimen

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• emigre, emigré, émigré

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e??i?m?/

Noun

regime n (singular definite regimet, plural indefinite regimer)

1. regime

Declension

Further reading

• “regime” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “regime” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French régime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r???im/, /re???im/
• Hyphenation: re?gi?me
• Rhymes: -im

Noun

regime n (plural regimes, diminutive regimetje n)

1. regime (political order)

   Synonyms: regeringsstelsel, staatsbestel

2. regime (undemocratic political order or government)
3. regimen, diet

Related terms

• regeren
• regering
• regiment

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: rezim

Italian

Etymology

From Latin regimen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?d??i.me/

Noun

regime m (plural regimi)

1. regime, régime
2. regimen

Synonyms

• dieta

Related terms

• regimare

Anagrams

• emergi
• emigre

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French régime

Noun

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

1. regime (form of government)

Derived terms

• kommunistregime
• terrorregime

References

• “regime” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “regime” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French régime

Noun

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

1. regime (form of government)

Derived terms

• kommunistregime
• terrorregime

References

• “regime” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regimen. Doublet of regímen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????im?/
• Hyphenation: re?gi?me

Noun

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)

   Synonym: dieta

Related terms

• regimento

Descendants

• Hunsrik: Rëschimm

Further reading

• “regime” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

English

Alternative forms

• regall (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i???l/

Etymology 1

From Middle English regal, from Old French regal (“regal, royal”), from Latin r?g?lis (“royal, kingly”), from rex (“king”); also regere (“to rule”). Doublet of royal (“belonging to a monarch”) and real (“unit of currency”). Cognate with Spanish real.

Adjective

regal (comparative more regal, superlative most regal)

1. Of or relating to royalty.
2. Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
3. Befitting a king, or emperor.

Coordinate terms

• reginal

Related terms

• regime
• regimen

Translations

See also

• kingly
• royal
• splendid
• stately

Etymology 2

From Middle French régale, possibly from Old French regol (“a gutter, channel”).

Noun

regal (plural regals)

1. (music) A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; today it has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
2. An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called Vox Humana.

Translations

Anagrams

• Agler, Alger, Elgar, Large, Ragle, ergal, glare, lager, large

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /r???al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re??al/

Noun

regal m (plural regals)

1. present; gift

Related terms

• regalar

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin r?g?lis. Compare the inherited reial, roial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re??al/

Adjective

regal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular regale)

1. regal

Synonyms

• roial

Descendants

• English: regal

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin r?g?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re??al/

Adjective

regal m or n (feminine singular regal?, masculine plural regali, feminine and neuter plural regale)

1. royal
2. regal

Declension

Synonyms

• regesc

Antonyms

• neregal
• neregesc

Related terms

• rege

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French régal.

Noun

regal n (plural regale)

1. feast
2. banquet