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See also: Regiment and régiment

English

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Etymology

From Middle French regement, régiment, and its source, Late Latin regimentum (“direction for government; course of medical treatment”), from Latin regō (“rule”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪmənt/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

regiment (plural regiments)

  1. (military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units. [from 16th c.]
    • 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter III, in Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 65:
      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 April 28, Nicholas Watt, Michael White, The Guardian:
      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.
  3. (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,&bnsp;XXXIII:
      What place is there in all the world, not ſubiect to the regiment and power of this citie?
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 116:
      Then loyall loue had royall regiment,
      And each vnto his luſt did make a lawe,
      From all forbidden things his liking to withdraw.
    • 1832, John Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined,&bnsp;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?
  4. (obsolete) The state or office of a ruler; rulership. [14th–17th c.]
    • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:
      But this it is that doth excruciate
      The verie ſubſtance of my vexed ſoule:
      To ſee our neighbours that were wont to quake
      And tremble at the Perſean Monarkes name,
      Now ſits and laughs our regiment to ſcorne, […]
  5. (obsolete) Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet). [14th–17th c.]
  6. (obsolete) A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain. [14th–17th c.]
  7. (obsolete, medicine) A regimen. [15th–19th c.]

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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.
    • (Can we date this quote by J. W. Powell and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      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.
    • 2015 March 22, Washington Post, Lee Kuan Yew, who led Singapore into prosperity over 30-year rule, dies at 91‎:
      The result was a tidy, law-abiding country, but one that visitors often described as regimented, sterile and dull.

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin regimentum.

Pronunciation

Noun

regiment m (plural regiments)

  1. regiment

Derived terms

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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): /ˌreː.ʒiˈmɛnt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: re‧gi‧ment
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

regiment n (plural regimenten, diminutive regimentje n)

  1. regiment (division of an army)
    Het regiment trok ten strijde onder leiding van hun kolonel. ― The regiment went into battle under the leadership of their colonel.
    Hij diende vijf jaar in een infanterieregiment. ― He served for five years in an infantry regiment.
    De troepen van dat regiment staan bekend om hun discipline. ― The troops of that regiment are known for their discipline.
  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.
      Maar God zal mij regeren / als een goed instrument, / dat ik zal wederkeren / in mijnen regiment.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

  • cavalerieregiment
  • garderegiment
  • hofregiment
  • infanterieregiment
  • pantserregiment
  • regimentsadjudant
  • regimentsarts
  • regimentsboek
  • regimentscommandant
  • regimentsdokter
  • regimentskas
  • regimentskind
  • regimentsnummer
  • regimentsofficier
  • regimentsstaf
  • reserveregiment
  • subsidieregiment
  • tankregiment

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: resimen (“division of an army”)
  • → Papiamentu: resjiment

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Regiment (“regiment”), from Medieval Latin regimentum, from Latin regimen (“rule, direction”), from regō (“I rule”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈrɛɡimɛnt]
  • Hyphenation: re‧gi‧ment
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

regiment (plural regimentek)

  1. (archaic) regiment
    Synonym: ezred

Declension

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More information possessor, single possession ...

Further reading

  • regiment in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
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Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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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

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Wikipedia nn

Etymology

From Late Latin regimentum.

Noun

regiment n (definite singular regimentet, indefinite plural regiment, definite plural regimenta)

  1. (military) a regiment

References

Polish

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin regimentum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɛˈɡi.mɛnt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -imɛnt
  • Syllabification: re‧gi‧ment

Noun

regiment m inan

  1. (historical, military) regiment (infantry or cavalry regiment in foreign armies in Poland in the 17th and 18th centuries)

Declension

Declension of regiment
More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

adjective
  • regimentowy
nouns
  • regimentarka
  • regimentarz
verb
  • regimentować
adjective
  • regimentarski
noun
  • regimentarstwo
verb
  • regimentarzować

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French régiment.

Noun

regiment n (plural regimente)

  1. regiment

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Vilamovian

Noun

regiment n

  1. (military) regiment

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