rego

See also: Rego, reĝo, and regó

English

Etymology

From registration +‎ -o (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdʒəʊ/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛdʒəʊ

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.

Further reading

• “rego”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈrɛ.ɣu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈrə.ɣo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈre.ɣo]

Verb

rego

1. first-person singular present indicative of regar

Galician

furrows (gl:regos) and ridges (somas)

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): [ˈreɣʊ], [ˈrɛɣʊ]

Noun

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

Derived terms

• derregar (“to demarcate”)

 

Related terms

• Rega
• Regas
• regato
• Rego
• Regos

 

Verb

rego

1. first-person singular present indicative of regar

References

• 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

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *regō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), extension of root *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten”). Cognate with Sanskrit राजति (rā́jati, “to direct; to steer; to rule”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈre.ɡoː/, [ˈrɛɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.ɡo/, [ˈrɛːɡo]

Verb

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 [the one] 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

Conjugation

   Conjugation of regō (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	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

Derived terms

• corrigō
• dīrigō
• ērigō
• *excorrigo
• pergō
• porrigō
• rectus
• regibilis (post-Classical)
• regimen
• rēgula
• surgō

 

Related terms

• rēctor
• rēgālis
• rēgia
• rēgius
• rēgnō
• rēgnum
• rēx m, rēgīna f

 

Descendants

• Catalan: regir
• Friulian: rezi
• Italian: reggere
• Old Galician-Portuguese: reger
  • Galician: rexer
  • Portuguese: reger
• Piedmontese: rese
• Romansch: reger, riger
• Sicilian: rèjiri
• Borrowings:
  • → Danish: regere
  • → Esperanto: regi
  • → French: régir (learned)
  • → German: regieren
  • → Middle Dutch: regeren (see there for further descendants)
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: regjere
  • → Spanish: regir (learned)
  • → Swedish: regera

Further reading

• “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
    

Portuguese

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• rêgo (pre-reform)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁe.ɡu/ [ˈhe.ɡu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁe.ɡu/ [ˈhe.ɡu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁe.ɡu/ [ˈχe.ɡu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁe.ɡo/ [ˈhe.ɡo]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁe.ɡu/ [ˈʁe.ɣu]

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

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)

   Synonym: sulco

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡu/ [ˈhɛ.ɡu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡu/ [ˈhɛ.ɡu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡu/ [ˈχɛ.ɡu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡo/ [ˈhɛ.ɡo]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡu/ [ˈʁɛ.ɣu]

• Rhymes: -ɛɡu
• Hyphenation: re‧go

Verb

rego

1. first-person singular present indicative of regar