rego

See also: Rego, reĝo, and regó

Contents

English

Etymology

From registration +‎ -o (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdʒəʊ/

Noun

rego (usually uncountable, plural regos)

1. (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).

2. (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) The fee required for such registration.

   David couldn′t drive his car as he hadn′t paid his rego.

3. (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.

Anagrams

• Geor., Gero, Gore, Ogre, ergo, ergo-, gero-, goer, gore, ogre, orge

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Catalan

Verb

rego

1. first-person singular present indicative form of regar

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Galician

furrows (gl:regos) and ridges (somas) in a ploughed field

Etymology

From the interaction of diverse sources: Latin rigāre (“to water”), a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *reku ("river"), and Proto-Celtic *ɸrikā (“furrow”); Compare Old Breton rec (“furrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreɣo̝/, /ˈrɛɣo̝/

Noun

rego m (plural regos)

1. ditch (drainage trench)
2. furrow (a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop)
3. stream

Synonyms

• (drainage trench): cano
• (a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop): suco
• (stream): regueiro

Derived terms

• derregar (“to demarcate”)

Verb

rego

1. first-person singular present indicative of regar

References

• “rego” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “rego” in Santamarina, Antón (dir.), Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja: Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (v 4.0). Santiago: ILG.
• “rego” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.ɡoː/, [ˈrɛ.ɡoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.ɡo/, [ˈreː.ɡo]

Verb

regō (present infinitive regere, perfect active rēxī, supine rēctum); third conjugation

1. I rule, govern
2. I guide, steer
3. I oversee, manage

Inflection

Conjugation of rego (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	regō	regis	regit	regimus	regitis	regunt
	imperfect	regēbam	regēbās	regēbat	regēbāmus	regēbātis	regēbant
	future	regam	regēs	reget	regēmus	regētis	regent
	perfect	rēxī	rēxistī	rēxit	rēximus	rēxistis	rēxērunt, rēxēre
	pluperfect	rēxeram	rēxerās	rēxerat	rēxerāmus	rēxerātis	rēxerant
	future perfect	rēxerō	rēxeris	rēxerit	rēxerimus	rēxeritis	rēxerint
passive	present	regor	regeris, regere	regitur	regimur	regiminī	reguntur
	imperfect	regēbar	regēbāris, regēbāre	regēbātur	regēbāmur	regēbāminī	regēbantur
	future	regar	regēris, regēre	regētur	regēmur	regēminī	regentur
	perfect	rēctus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	rēctus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	rēctus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	regam	regās	regat	regāmus	regātis	regant
	imperfect	regerem	regerēs	regeret	regerēmus	regerētis	regerent
	perfect	rēxerim	rēxerīs	rēxerit	rēxerīmus	rēxerītis	rēxerint
	pluperfect	rēxissem	rēxissēs	rēxisset	rēxissēmus	rēxissētis	rēxissent
passive	present	regar	regāris, regāre	regātur	regāmur	regāminī	regantur
	imperfect	regerer	regerēris, regerēre	regerētur	regerēmur	regerēminī	regerentur
	perfect	rēctus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	rēctus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	rege	—	—	regite	—
	future	—	regitō	regitō	—	regitōte	reguntō
passive	present	—	regere	—	—	regiminī	—
	future	—	regitor	regitor	—	—	reguntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		regere	rēxisse	rēctūrus esse	regī	rēctus esse	rēctum īrī
participles		regēns	—	rēctūrus	—	rēctus	regendus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		nominative	genitive	dative/ablative	accusative	accusative	ablative
		regere	regendī	regendō	regendum	rēctum	rēctū

Synonyms

• (rule, govern): ordinō

Derived terms

Derived terms

• corrigō
• dīrigō
• ērigō
• *excorrigo

• pergō
• porrigō
• rectus
• regibilis (post-Classical)

• regimen
• rēgula
• surgō

Related terms

Terms related to rego

• rector
• rēgālis
• rēgia

• rēgius
• rēgnō

• rēgnum
• rēx m, rēgina f

Descendants

• Afrikaans: regeer
• Catalan: regir
• Esperanto: regi
• Danish: regere
• Dutch: regeren
• French: régir
• Friulian: rezi

• German: regieren
• Italian: reggere
• Norwegian: regjere
• Portuguese: reger
• Romansch: reger, riger
• Spanish: regir
• Swedish: regera

References

• 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
    

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Novial

Etymology

Derived from rege (“monarch, king or queen”)

Root: reg-

Morphemes: reg- +‎ -o

Noun

rego m (plural regos)

1. king

Related terms

• rege (“monarch”, noun)
• rega (“queen”, noun)
• regia (“kingdom”, noun)
• regira (“reign”, verb)
• regido (“royal prince”, noun)
• regida (“royal princess”, noun)
• viserego (“viceroy”, noun)
• regal (“regal, royal”, adjective)
• regonal (“kingly”, adjective)
• reganal (“queenly”, adjective)

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Portuguese

Etymology

From regar. Compare Galician rego, Spanish riego. Cf. also Latin riguum.

Noun

rego m (plural regos)

1. ditch (drainage trench)
2. furrow (a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop)
3. (Brazil, vulgar, slang) crack (space between the buttocks)

Verb

rego

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of regar