🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

régime totalitaire

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ʁeʒim tɔtalitɛʁ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Totalitarian regime/təʊˌtæl.ɪˈteə.ri.ən reɪˈʒiːm/
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"L'effondrement du régime totalitaire a surpris de nombreux observateurs."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A form of government that is centralized and dictatorial, and requires complete subservience to the state.

    "Citizens living under a totalitarian regime experience severe restrictions on personal freedoms and political opposition."
  2. 2

    A political system in which the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life.

    "History shows that a totalitarian regime often maintains power through mass surveillance, state-controlled media, and political terror."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'totalitarian' derives from Italian 'totalitario', coined in the early 1920s in reference to the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, stemming from Latin 'totalis' (total). 'Regime' comes from French 'régime', ultimately from Latin 'regimen' (rule, government). Together, the phrase gained widespread political and academic prominence during the Cold War to describe centralized states that demand complete subservience to the state.

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🇫🇷French → English

régime totalitaire

Transliteration: ʁeʒim tɔtalitɛʁ

"L'effondrement du régime totalitaire a surpris de nombreux observateurs."

🇩🇪German → English

totalitäres Regime

Transliteration: toɡaliˈtɛːʁəs ʁeˈʒiːm

"Die Opposition kämpfte jahrelang gegen das totalitäre Regime."

🇮🇹Italian → English

regime totalitario

Transliteration: reˈʒiːme totaliˈtaːrio

"Il regime totalitario esercitava un controllo assoluto sulla stampa."

🇪🇸Spanish → English

régimen totalitario

Transliteration: ˈre.xi.men to.ta.liˈta.ɾjo

"La población sufrió bajo el peso del régimen totalitario."

🇵🇹Portuguese → English

regime totalitário

Transliteration: ʁeˈʒĩmi totaliˈtaɾju

"O regime totalitário proibiu todas as formas de dissidência."

🇮🇳Hindi → English

सर्वाधिकारवादी शासन

Transliteration: sarvadhikarvadi shasan

"इतिहास गवाह है कि सर्वाधिकारवादी शासन अधिक समय तक नहीं टिकते।"

🇨🇳Chinese → English

极权政体

Transliteration: jí quán zhèng tǐ

"极权政体通过严格控制信息来维护其统治。"

🇰🇷Korean → English

전체주의 정권

Transliteration: jeonchejuui jeonggwon

"그 전체주의 정권은 국민들의 모든 생활을 통제했다."

🇯🇵Japanese → English

全体主義体制

Transliteration: zentai shugi taisei

"市民たちは全体主義体制に対抗して立ち上がった。"

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