rego
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From registration + -o (“diminutive suffix”).
PronunciationEdit
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.
- 1984, Renfrey Clarke, The Picket: Tasmanian Mine Workers Defend Their Jobs, page 84,
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten; right”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
regō (present infinitive regere, perfect active rēxī, supine rēctum); third conjugation
InflectionEdit
SynonymsEdit
- (rule, govern): ordinō
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from rego
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- rego in Charlton T. Lewis & 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 Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
Northern SamiEdit
VerbEdit
rego
- inflection of reahkut:
- present indicative connegative
- second-person singular imperative
NovialEdit
EtymologyEdit
From rege, a monarch , king or queen.
Root: reg-.
NounEdit
rego (plural regos)
Related termsEdit
| rege | { n } | monarch, king or queen |
| rega | { n } | queen |
| regia | { n } | kingdom |
| regira | { v } | reign |
| regiro | { n } | reign |
| regido | { n } | royal prince |
| regida | { n } | royal princess |
| regal | { adj } | regal, royal |
| viserego | { n } | viceroy |
| regonal | { adj } | kingly |
| reganal | { adj } | queenly |
PortugueseEdit
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