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regiment
English
Etymology
From Middle French regement, régiment, and its source, Late Latin regimentum (“direction for government; course of medical treatment”), from Latin reg? (“rule”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???d??m?nt/
Noun
regiment (plural regiments)
- (military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units; now specifically, usually composed of two or more battalions. [from 16th c.]
- 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, III:
- It was an old, withered man, who had served the Government in the days of the Mutiny as a native officer in a newly raised cavalry regiment.
- 2005, Nicholas Watt & Michael White, The Guardian, 28 April 2005:
- As the prime minister insisted that he had "never told a lie" in his life, the Tory leader attacked him for ordering Scottish troops into battle with no warning that their regiments would be disbanded.
- 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, III:
- (now rare, archaic) Rule or governance over a person, place etc.; government, authority. [from 14th c.]
- 1576, Abraham Fleming, translating Cicero, A Panoplie of Epistles, XXXIII:
- What place is there in all the world, not subiect to the regiment and power of this citie?
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:
- Then loyall love had royall regiment, / And each unto his lust did make a lawe, / From all forbidden things his liking to withdraw.
- 1832, John Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, VI:
- And how is it possible to distinguish precisely […] the powers of ecclesiastical regiment which none but the church should wield from the powers of ecclesiastical regiment (on the jus circa sacra) which secular and profane governments may handle without sin?
- 1576, Abraham Fleming, translating Cicero, A Panoplie of Epistles, XXXIII:
- (obsolete) The state or office of a ruler; rulership. [14th-17th c.]
- (obsolete) Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet). [14th-17th c.]
- (obsolete) A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain. [14th-17th c.]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- (obsolete, medicine) A regimen. [15th-19th c.]
Translations
Verb
regiment (third-person singular simple present regiments, present participle regimenting, simple past and past participle regimented)
- (transitive) To form soldiers into a regiment.
- J. W. Powell
- The people are organized or regimented into bodies, and special functions are relegated to the several units.
- J. W. Powell
- (transitive) To systematize, or put in rigid order.
Anagrams
- metering
Catalan
Etymology
From Late Latin regimentum.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /r?.?i?ment/
- (Central) IPA(key): /r?.?i?men/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /re.d??i?ment/
- Rhymes: -ent
Noun
regiment m (plural regiments)
- regiment
Derived terms
- regimental
- regimentar
Further reading
- “regiment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “regiment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “regiment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “regiment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch regiment. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?re?.?i?m?nt/
- Hyphenation: re?gi?ment
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
regiment n (plural regimenten, diminutive regimentje n)
- regiment (division of an army)
- regimen, regime (particular system of enforcing discipline)
- (obsolete) rulership, governance, rule
- 1628, Philips Marnix van Sint Aldegonde, "Wilhelmus van Nassouwe", (modern, redacted version), couplet 2.
- 1628, Philips Marnix van Sint Aldegonde, "Wilhelmus van Nassouwe", (modern, redacted version), couplet 2.
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: resimen (“division of an army”)
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Regiment (“regiment”), from Medieval Latin regimentum, from Latin regimen (“rule, direction”), from reg? (“I rule”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?r??im?nt]
- Hyphenation: re?gi?ment
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
regiment (plural regimentek)
- (archaic) regiment
- Synonym: ezred
Declension
Further reading
- regiment in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Late Latin regimentum
Noun
regiment n (definite singular regimentet, indefinite plural regiment or regimenter, definite plural regimenta or regimentene)
- (military) a regiment
References
- “regiment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Late Latin regimentum
Noun
regiment n (definite singular regimentet, indefinite plural regiment, definite plural regimenta)
- (military) a regiment
References
- “regiment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
From French régiment.
Noun
regiment n (plural regimente)
- regiment
Declension
Vilamovian
Noun
regiment n
- (military) regiment
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craphat
English
Etymology
crap +? hat; a reference to the different colour of the beret.
Pronunciation
Noun
craphat (plural craphats)
- (slang, derogatory, Britain) A member of a non-elite regiment, not in the British army's parachute regiment or the SAS.
- (slang) A member or supporter of Surrey County Cricket Club, after the brown caps worn by the same.
References
- crap hat, in The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: A-I, by Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006.
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