régime

See also: regime, Regime, and régimé

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French

Noun

régime (plural régimes)

  1. Alternative spelling of regime
    • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, pages 5{1} and 46{2} (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
      {1} There are many “Foucaults” — whether they are all texts, or features in a network of institutional power, a régime of truth and knowledge, or the discourse of the author and his works.
      {2} Personalities like Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) silenced condemnation of madness. He abolished régimes of silence that reformers had employed. He made the mad talk. But he also developed the structure which included the medical personage — him — as omnipotent and quasi-divine.

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin regimen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁe.ʒim/
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Noun

régime m (plural régimes)

  1. regime
  2. (politics) kind of political system; regimen
  3. (grammar) regimen
  4. (technical) operating mode
    régime de maintenancemaintenance mode
  5. (dietetics, nutrition) diet
  6. (botany) clump of fruits on the end of a branch (in palms, bananas, etc)

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Descendants

  • English: regime, régime
  • German: Regime
  • Ottoman Turkish: رژیم (rejim)
  • Persian: رژیم (režim)
  • Arabic: رجيم (rejim)
  • Romanian: regim
  • Russian: режи́м m (režím), режи́мъ (režím)

Verb

régime

  1. inflection of régimer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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