# regimen
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English regimen, from Middle French regimen and its etymon, Latin regimen (“guidance, direction, government, rule”). Doublet of regime.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.mən/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

regimen (plural regimens or regimina)
* Orderly government; system of order; administration.
** 2020 November 23, Shauna Farnell, “Ski patrollers shave their beards, and a tradition, to wear N95 masks.”, in The New York Times‎:In ski areas like Arapahoe Basin, about 80 percent of the male patrollers have had to drastically change (or introduce) shaving regimens.
* (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 […]
** 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 229:...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 a regimen, "they would get well as soon as possible, and learn to keep 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 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, 3rd edition, London, page 84 & 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, 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.”, in 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, published 1854, 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.
** 1847, M. Josse, A Grammar of the Spanish Language with Practical Exercises. First Part, page 51:Pronouns may be nominatives, and of the direct or indirect regimen.
* (grammar) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
    Synonyms: government, rection (archaic)
    Coordinate terms: agreement, concord, concordance (obsolete)
* (medicine, dated) Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.

#### Derived terms

* Yuzpe regimen

#### Related terms

* régime
* regime
* regiminal

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “regimen, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* ↑ “reǧimen, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Further reading

* “regimen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “regimen”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* germine, mereing, reeming

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin regimen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [reˈɡimɛn]
* Hyphenation: ré‧gi‧mèn

### Noun

régimèn (uncountable)
* (medicine) regimen: any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation

#### Alternative forms

* rejimen

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* reg. (abbreviation)

### Etymology

From regō (“I rule”, “I direct”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈre.ɡi.men/, [ˈrɛɡɪmɛn]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈre.d͡ʒi.men/, [ˈrɛːd͡ʒimen]

### Noun

regimen n (genitive regiminis); third declension
* control, steering
* directing
* rule; governance; regimen

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

#### Descendants

* → English: regimen
* → Spanish: régimen
* Old French: reiaume, reialme
** French: royaume, régime
** → English: regime, realm
** → Italian: regime, reame
** → Friulian: ream
** → Portuguese: regime
** → Romanian: regim
** → Piedmontese: regim
** → Sicilian: riggimi
* Old Occitan: regeme, reialme
** Occitan: reialme
* Norman: régînme
* Romansch: reginam, raginam

### 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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