rego

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdʒəʊ/
Audio (AU)
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NounEdit

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.

AnagramsEdit

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

CatalanEdit

VerbEdit

rego

first-person singular present indicative form of regar

GalicianEdit

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

EtymologyEdit

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”).

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈreɣo̝/, /ˈrɛɣo̝/

NounEdit

rego m (plural regos)

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

SynonymsEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

derregar (“to demarcate”)

Related termsEdit

VerbEdit

rego

first-person singular present indicative of regar

ReferencesEdit

“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.

^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1983–1991), “regar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

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”).

PronunciationEdit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.ɡoː/, [ˈrɛɡoː]
(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.ɡo/, [ˈrɛːɡɔ]

VerbEdit

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

ConjugationEdit

Conjugation of regō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
indicative		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
subjunctive		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
imperative		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	rege	—	—	regite	—
active	future	—	regitō	regitō	—	regitōte	reguntō
passive	present	—	regere	—	—	regiminī	—
passive	future	—	regitor	regitor	—	—	reguntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
non-finite forms		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		regere	rēxisse	rēctūrum esse	regī	rēctum esse	rēctum īrī
participles		regēns	—	rēctūrus	—	rēctus	regendus, regundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		regendī	regendō	regendum	regendō	rēctum	rēctū

SynonymsEdit

(rule, govern): ordinō

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

Afrikaans: regeer
Catalan: regir
Esperanto: regi
Danish: regere
Dutch: regeren
French: régir
Friulian: rezi
→ Galician: rexer

German: regieren
Italian: reggere
Norwegian: regjere
Piedmontese: rese
Portuguese: reger
Romansch: reger, riger
Sicilian: rèjiri
Spanish: regir (borrowing)
Swedish: regera

ReferencesEdit

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

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

rego m (plural regos)

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

VerbEdit

rego

first-person singular (eu) present indicative of regar

[1] Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1983–1991), “regar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN

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