rego
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From registration + -o (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rego (usually uncountable, plural regos)
- (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Registration for a motor vehicle.
- The police pulled me over for driving with an expired rego.
- 2003, Australian Senate, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 18057:
- You might give these people a badge or some livery for their boat and you can give them a discount on the rego of their boat.
- 2007, Archie Gerzee, WOW! Tales of a Larrikin Adventurer, page 223:
- They gave us permission to drive in Australia under the British rego, meaning we still had our GB number plates.
- 2008, Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Peter Dragicevich, Justin Flynn, Paul Harding, East Coast Australia, page 501:
- When you come to buy or sell a car, every state has its own regulations, particularly with rego (registration).
- (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) The fee required for such registration.
- David couldn′t drive his car as he hadn′t paid his rego.
- (countable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) The registration number of a motor vehicle, used by police to access registration details such as the identity of the owner.
- 1984, Renfrey Clarke, The Picket: Tasmanian Mine Workers Defend Their Jobs, page 84:
- “They also got the regos of the cars. There were two commercial travelers whose cars were trapped inside by the pickets, and they got hit with writs. […] ”
- 2010, Alex Palmer, The Labyrinth of Drowning, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page:
- A line of cars was parked along one side, presumably belonging to the sex workers and their clients. ‘Get their regos,’ Borghini said to one of his people.
Further reading[edit]
- “rego”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Verb[edit]
rego
- first-person singular present indicative form of regar
Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]
From the interaction of diverse sources: Latin rigāre (“to water”), a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *reku ("river"), and Proto-Celtic *ɸrikā (“furrow”).[1] Compare Old Breton rec (“furrow”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rego m (plural regos)
- ditch (drainage trench)
- Synonym: birta
- furrow (a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop)
- Synonym: suco
- stream
- Synonym: regueiro
Derived terms[edit]
- derregar (“to demarcate”)
Related terms[edit]
Verb[edit]
rego
References[edit]
- “rego” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “rego” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “rego” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “regar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *regō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), extension of root *h₃reǵ-. Cognate with Sanskrit राजति (rā́jati, “to direct; to steer; to rule”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈre.ɡoː/, [ˈrɛɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈre.ɡo/, [ˈrɛːɡo]
Verb[edit]
regō (present infinitive regere, perfect active rēxī, supine rēctum); third conjugation
Conjugation[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “rego”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rego”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have self-control; to restrain oneself, master one's inclinations: animum regere, coercere, cohibere
- to keep house: rem domesticam, familiarem administrare, regere, curare
- to govern, administer the state: rem publicam gerere, administrare, regere, tractare, gubernare
- aristocracy (as a form of government): civitas, quae optimatium arbitrio regitur
- (ambiguous) to belong to the king's bodyguard: a latere regis esse
- to have self-control; to restrain oneself, master one's inclinations: animum regere, coercere, cohibere
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Deverbal from regar. Compare Galician rego, Spanish riego. Cf. also Latin riguum.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
rego m (plural regos)
- ditch (drainage trench)
- furrow (a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop)
- (vulgar) crack (space between the buttocks)
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛɡu
- Hyphenation: re‧go
Verb[edit]
rego
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