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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)

1. (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.

2. (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?

3. (obsolete) The state or office of a ruler; rulership. [14th-17th c.]
4. (obsolete) Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet). [14th-17th c.]
5. (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?)

6. (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)

1. (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.

2. (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)

1. 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)

1. regiment (division of an army)
2. regimen, regime (particular system of enforcing discipline)
3. (obsolete) rulership, governance, rule
   • 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)

1. (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)

1. (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)

1. (military) a regiment

References

• “regiment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French régiment.

Noun

regiment n (plural regimente)

1. regiment

Declension

Vilamovian

Noun

regiment n

1. (military) regiment

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)

1. (now rare) A ruler. [from 15th c.]
2. One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled. [from 15th c.]
3. (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.

4. (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.]
5. (Indonesia) The chief executive of a regency

Derived terms

• prince regent

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

regent (comparative more regent, superlative most regent)

1. 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.

2. 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)

1. regent, governing

Noun

regent m or f (plural regents)

1. regent

Derived terms

• regentar

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r???nt]

Noun

regent m

1. 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)

1. (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)

1. regent

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re???nt/

Verb

regent

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of regenen
2. (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

1. third-person plural future active indicative of reg?

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French regent, see below.

Noun

regent m (plural regens)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. regent

Declension

Swedish

Noun

regent c

1. a monarch or a regent, one who rules

Declension

Anagrams

• regnet