regiment

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdʒɪmənt/

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regiment (plural regiments)

1. (military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units; now specifically, usually composed of two or more battalions. [from 16th c.]
   • 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, III:

     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, Nicholas Watt & Michael White, The Guardian, 28 April 2005:

     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.

2. (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, XXXIII:

     What place is there in all the world, not subiect to the regiment and power of this citie?

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:

     Then loyall love had royall regiment, / And each unto his lust did make a lawe, / From all forbidden things his liking to withdraw.

   • 1832, John Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, 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?

3. (obsolete) The state or office of a ruler; rulership. [14th-17th c.]
4. (obsolete) Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet). [14th-17th c.]
5. (obsolete) A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain. [14th-17th c.]

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6. (obsolete, medicine) A regimen. [15th-19th c.]

regiment (third-person singular simple present regiments, present participle regimenting, simple past and past participle regimented)

1. (transitive) To form soldiers into a regiment.
   • J. W. Powell

     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.

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• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /rə.ʒiˈment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /rə.ʒiˈmen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re.d͡ʒiˈment/
• Rhymes: -ent

regiment m (plural regiments)

1. regiment

From Middle Dutch regiment. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˌreː.ʒiˈmɛnt/

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• Hyphenation: re‧gi‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

regiment n (plural regimenten, diminutive regimentje n)

1. regiment (division of an army)
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.

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛɡimɛnt]
• Hyphenation: re‧gi‧ment

regiment (plural regimentek)

1. (archaic) regiment

   Synonym: ezred

From Late Latin regimentum

regiment n (definite singular regimentet, indefinite plural regiment or regimenter, definite plural regimenta or regimentene)

1. (military) a regiment

• “regiment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Late Latin regimentum

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

1. (military) a regiment

• “regiment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

regiment n

1. (military) regiment