régime
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French
Noun edit
régime (plural régimes)
- 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.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, pages 5{1} and 46{2} (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin regimen.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
régime m (plural régimes)
- regime
- (politics) kind of political system; regimen
- (grammar) regimen
- (technical) operating mode
- régime de maintenance ― maintenance mode
- (dietetics, nutrition) diet
- (botany) clump of fruits on the end of a branch (in palms, bananas, etc)
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Descendants edit
- → English: regime, régime
- → German: Regime
- → Ottoman Turkish: رژیم (rejim)
- Turkish: rejim
- → Persian: رژیم (režim)
- → Urdu: رژیم (režim)
- → Arabic: رجيم (rejim)
- → Romanian: regim
- → Russian: режи́м m (režím), режи́мъ (režím)
Verb edit
régime
- inflection of régimer:
Further reading edit
- “régime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.