rego
English
editEtymology
editFrom registration + -o (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editrego (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.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “rego”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Anagrams
editCatalan
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editVerb
editrego
Galician
editEtymology
editFrom the interaction of diverse sources: Latin rigāre (“to water”), Paleo-Hispanic *reku ("river"), and Proto-Celtic *ɸrikā (“furrow”).[1] Compare Old Breton rec (“furrow”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editrego 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
editVerb
editrego
References
edit- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rego”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “rego”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rego”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “regar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Italic *regō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), thematic present of root *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten”). Cognate with Sanskrit राजति (rā́jati, “to direct; to steer; to rule”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈrɛ.ɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈrɛː.ɡo]
Verb
editregō (present infinitive regere, perfect active rēxī, supine rēctum); third conjugation
- to rule, govern, direct
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.229–230:
- “[...] sed fore, quī gravidam imperiīs bellōque frementem / Ītaliam regeret, [...].”
- “[...] But he would be [the one] who is to rule an Italy teeming with imperial commands and thunderous in war, [...].”
(Jupiter ascribes the future of imperial Rome to Aeneas and his descendants.)
- “[...] But he would be [the one] who is to rule an Italy teeming with imperial commands and thunderous in war, [...].”
- “[...] sed fore, quī gravidam imperiīs bellōque frementem / Ītaliam regeret, [...].”
- to guide, steer, control
- to oversee, manage
- to support
- Synonym: gero
Conjugation
editDerived terms
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editDescendants
editReferences
edit- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “regō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 517-8
Further reading
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
editEtymology 1
editDeverbal from regar. Compare Galician rego, Spanish riego, and Latin riguum.
Alternative forms
edit- rêgo (pre-reform spelling)
Pronunciation
edit
Noun
editrego m (plural regos)
- ditch (drainage trench)
- furrow (a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop)
- Synonym: sulco
- (vulgar) crack (space between the buttocks)
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
edit
- Rhymes: -ɛɡu
- Hyphenation: re‧go
Verb
editrego
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/eɡu
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