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regimen
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin regimen (“guidance, direction, government, rule”), from reg? (“I rule, I direct”). Doublet of regime.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???d?.?.m?n/
Noun
regimen (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 […]
- 1832, The Edinburgh Review (page 470)
- (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.
- 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.
- (medicine, dated) Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.
Related terms
Translations
References
- regimen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- regimen in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- germine, mereing, reeming
Latin
Etymology
From reg? (“I rule”, “I direct”) +? -men (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?re.?i.men/, [?r???m?n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?re.d??i.men/, [?r??d??im?n]
Noun
regimen n (genitive regiminis); third declension
- control, steering
- directing
- rule; governance
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Descendants
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, 1883–1887)
- regimen in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Swedish
Noun
regimen
- definite singular of regim
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regent
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman regent, Middle French regent, and their source, Latin reg?ns (“ruling; ruler, governor, prince”), present participle of reg? (“I govern, I steer”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i?d??nt/
Noun
regent (plural regents)
- (now rare) A ruler. [from 15th c.]
- One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled. [from 15th c.]
- (now chiefly historical) A member of a municipal or civic body of governors, especially in certain European cities. [from 16th c.]
- 1999, Philipp Blom, translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Vintage 2001, p. 139:
- This perception, however, does no justice to the regents of the city of Amsterdam.
- 1999, Philipp Blom, translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Vintage 2001, p. 139:
- (Scotland, Canada, US) A member of governing board of a college or university; also a governor of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. [from 18th c.]
- (Indonesia) The chief executive of a regency
Derived terms
- prince regent
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
regent (comparative more regent, superlative most regent)
- Ruling; governing; regnant.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- Some other active regent principle […] which we call the soul.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- Exercising vicarious authority.
Further reading
- regent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- regent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Genter, gerent
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin reg?ns.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /r???ent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /r???en/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /re?d??ent/
- Rhymes: -ent
Adjective
regent (feminine regenta, masculine plural regents, feminine plural regentes)
- regent, governing
Noun
regent m or f (plural regents)
- regent
Derived terms
- regentar
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?r???nt]
Noun
regent m
- regent (one who rules in place of the monarch)
Related terms
- See režim
Further reading
- regent in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- regent in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Etymology
Via German Regent and French régent from Latin reg?ns, a present participle of the verb Latin reg? (“to rule”) (whence Danish regere).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??????n?d?]
Noun
regent c (singular definite regenten, plural indefinite regenter)
- (politics) a monarch, a regent (one who rules)
Inflection
Related terms
References
- “regent” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch regent, from Middle French regent, from Old French regent, from Latin reg?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r????nt/, /re????nt/
- Hyphenation: re?gent
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
regent m (plural regenten, diminutive regentje n, feminine regentes)
- regent
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?re???nt/
Verb
regent
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of regenen
- (archaic) plural imperative of regenen
Anagrams
- tenger
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?re.?ent/, [?r???n?t?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?re.d??ent/, [?r??d???n?t?]
Verb
regent
- third-person plural future active indicative of reg?
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French regent, see below.
Noun
regent m (plural regens)
- regent
Descendants
- ? English: regent
- French: régent
References
- regent on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin regens
Noun
regent m (definite singular regenten, indefinite plural regenter, definite plural regentene)
- a regent, monarch, ruler
Derived terms
- prinsregent
References
- “regent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “regent” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin regens
Noun
regent m (definite singular regenten, indefinite plural regentar, definite plural regentane)
- a regent, monarch, ruler
Derived terms
- prinsregent
References
- “regent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
From Latin reg?ns (“ruling, as a noun, a ruler, governor, prince”); present participle of reg? (“I govern, I steer”).
Noun
regent m (oblique plural regens, nominative singular regens, nominative plural regent)
- regent (one who reigns in the absence of a monarch)
Declension
Descendants
- Middle French: regent
- ? English: regent
- French: régent
Romanian
Etymology
From French regent, from Latin régens.
Noun
regent m (plural regen?i)
- regent
Declension
Swedish
Noun
regent c
- a monarch or a regent, one who rules
Declension
Anagrams
- regnet
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