rego

From registration +‎ -o (diminutive suffix).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdʒəʊ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɛdʒəʊ

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.

• “rego”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

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

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rego

1. first-person singular present indicative of regar

From the interaction of diverse sources: Latin rigāre (“to water”), Paleo-Hispanic *reku ("river"), and Proto-Celtic *ɸrikā (“furrow”).^[1] Compare Old Breton rec (“furrow”).

• IPA^(key): ,

rego m (plural regos)

1. ditch (drainage trench)

   Synonym: birta

2. furrow (a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop)

   Synonym: suco

3. stream

   Synonym: regueiro

rego

1. first-person singular present indicative of regar

• 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

From 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]

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

1. to rule, govern, direct

   Synonyms: dominor, imperō, gerō, imperitō, moderor, ōrdinō, magistrō, rēgnō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.229–230:

     “ sed fore, quī gravidam imperiīs bellōque frementem / Ītaliam regeret, .”

     “ But he would be 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.)

2. to guide, steer, control
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.101:

     dubiam rege, nāvita, puppem

     Sailor, steer your veering vessel! (Imperative mood)

3. to oversee, manage

   Synonyms: moderor, gerō, prōcūrō, dispēnsō

4. to support

   Synonym: gero

• “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, 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
    

Deverbal from regar. Compare Galician rego, Spanish riego, and Latin riguum.

• rêgo (pre-reform spelling)

• Rhymes: -eɡu
• Homophone: Rego
• Hyphenation: re‧go

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)

   Synonym: sulco

3. (vulgar) crack (space between the buttocks)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ɛɡu
• Hyphenation: re‧go

rego

1. first-person singular present indicative of regar