rego

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdʒəʊ/

• Audio (AU)

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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.

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

rego

1. first-person singular present indicative form of regar

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈreɣo̝/, /ˈrɛɣo̝/

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

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

• derregar (“to demarcate”)

• Rega
• Regas
• regato
• Rego
• Regos

rego

1. first-person singular present indicative of regar

• “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.

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”). Cognate to Sanskrit राजति (rā́jati, “to direct; to steer; to rule”).

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

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

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

• (rule, govern): ordinō

• 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
    

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

Root: reg-

Morphemes: reg- +‎ -o

rego m (plural regos)

1. king

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

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)

rego

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