regimenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.mən/

名詞

regimen (複数形 regimens または regimina)

1. Orderly government; system of order; administration.
2. (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 1000392275, 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."

3. (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, third edition, London, page 84 and 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 and 1854, 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. and 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, 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.

4. (grammar) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
5. (medicine, dated) Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.

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Further reading

• regimen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• regimen in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

アナグラム

• germine, mereing, reeming

Latin

語源

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

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.ɡi.men/, [ˈrɛɡɪmɛn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.d͡ʒi.men/, [ˈrɛːd͡ʒimen]

名詞

regimen n (genitive regiminis); third declension

1. control, steering
2. directing
3. rule; governance

語形変化

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

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