English

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.

Anagrams

• ergo
• goer
• gore
• ogre, Ogre

Galician

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)

Synonyms

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

Verb

rego

1. first-person singular present indicative of regar

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti ‎(“to straighten; right”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

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

Inflection

Synonyms

• (rule, govern): ordinō

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “rego”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
    

Northern Sami

Verb

rego

1. inflection of reahkut:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Novial

Etymology

From rege, a monarch , king or queen.

Root: reg-.

Morphemes: reg- + -o (1).

Noun

rego ‎(plural regos)

1. king

Related terms

Portuguese

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)
3. (Brazil, vulgar, slang) crack (space between the buttocks)

Verb

rego

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