FromMiddle Englishregimen, fromMiddle Frenchregimen and its etymon,Latinregimen(“guidance, direction, government, rule”).[1][2]Doublet ofregime.
regimen (pluralregimensorregimina)
- Orderlygovernment; system oforder;administration.
2020 November 23, Shauna Farnell, “Ski patrollers shave their beards, and a tradition, to wear N95 masks.”, inThe New York Times[1]:In ski areas like Arapahoe Basin, about 80 percent of the male patrollers have had to drastically change (or introduce) shavingregimens.
- (medicine) Anyregulation orremedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
1832,The Edinburgh Review, page470:Seven or eight annual bloodings, and as many purgations — such was the commonregimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health[…]
1842, [anonymous collaborator ofLetitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLII, inLady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London:Henry Colburn, […],→OCLC,page229:...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 aregimen, "they would get well as soon as possible, and learn tokeep well also."
- (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 ofregimen: thedirectregimen and theindirectregimen. (4.) Thedirectregimen, or immediate object [...] (5.) Theindirectregimen, or remote object [....]
1828, J. V. Douville,The Speaking French Grammar, forming a series of sixty explanatory lessons, with colloquial essays, 3rd edition, London, page84 & 315:Active verbs express an action which an agent, called the nominative or subject, performs on an object orregimen, without the help of a preposition: as,--- Pierre aime Sophie, Peter loves Sophia. [...] Of the Object orRegimen 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.”, inA 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, published1854, page 2:15. A verb isactive in French when it expresses that an agent called nominative, or subject, performs an action on an object, orregimen, 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, page51:Pronouns may benominatives, and of thedirect orindirectregimen.
- (grammar) Asyntacticalrelation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect tocase ormood; government.
- Synonyms:government,rection(archaic)
- Coordinate terms:agreement,concord,concordance(obsolete)
- (medicine, dated)Diet; limitations on thefood that one eats, for health reasons.
orderly government; system of order; administration
any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation
grammar: object
—see alsoobjecta syntactical relation between words
diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons
—seediet- “regimen”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “regimen”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
Learned borrowing fromLatinregimen.
- IPA(key): [reˈɡimɛn]
- Hyphenation:ré‧gi‧mèn
régimèn (pluralregimen-regimen)
- (medicine)regimen: anyregulation orremedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation
Fromregō(“I rule”, “I direct”) +-men(noun-forming suffix).
regimen n (genitiveregiminis);third declension
- control,steering
- directing
- rule;governance; regimen
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
- “regimen”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “regimen”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "regimen", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “regimen”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
regimen
- definitesingular ofregim
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