# rego
## English
### Etymology

From registration +‎ -o (diminutive suffix).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɹɛdʒəʊ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛdʒəʊ

### Noun

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.

### Further reading

* “rego”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

### Anagrams

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

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈrɛ.ɣu]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈrə.ɣo]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈre.ɣo]

### Verb

rego
* first-person singular present indicative of regar

## Galician
### 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: [ˈreɣʊ], [ˈrɛɣʊ]

### Noun

rego m (plural regos)
* ditch (drainage trench)
    Synonym: birta
* furrow (a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop)
    Synonym: suco
* stream
    Synonym: regueiro

#### Derived terms

* derregar (“to demarcate”)

#### Related terms

* Rega
* Regas
* regato
* Rego
* Regos

### Verb

rego
* 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
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “regar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## 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: /ˈre.ɡoː/, [ˈrɛɡoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈre.ɡo/, [ˈrɛːɡo]

### Verb

regō (present infinitive regere, perfect active rēxī, supine rēctum); third conjugation
* 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.)
* to guide, steer, control
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.101:dubiam rege, nāvita, puppemSailor, steer your veering vessel! (Imperative mood)
* to oversee, manage
    Synonyms: moderor, gerō, prōcūrō, dispēnsō
* to support
    Synonym: gero

#### 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

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: reggere
** Sicilian: rèjiri
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: rezi
** Romansch: reger, riger
* Gallo-Italic:
** Piedmontese: rese
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: regir
* Ibero-Romance:
** Old Galician-Portuguese: reger
*** Galician: rexer
*** Portuguese: reger
* 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

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “regō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 517-8

### 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, 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 spelling)

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁe.ɡu/ [ˈhe.ɡu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁe.ɡu/ [ˈhe.ɡu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁe.ɡu/ [ˈχe.ɡu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁe.ɡo/ [ˈhe.ɡo]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁe.ɡu/ [ˈʁe.ɣu]
* Rhymes: -eɡu
* Homophone: Rego
* Hyphenation: re‧go

#### Noun

rego m (plural regos)
* ditch (drainage trench)
* furrow (a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop)
    Synonym: sulco
* (vulgar) crack (space between the buttocks)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɛ.ɡu/ [ˈhɛ.ɡu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɛ.ɡu/ [ˈhɛ.ɡu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁɛ.ɡu/ [ˈχɛ.ɡu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɛ.ɡo/ [ˈhɛ.ɡo]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁɛ.ɡu/ [ˈʁɛ.ɣu]
* Rhymes: -ɛɡu
* Hyphenation: re‧go

#### Verb

rego
* first-person singular present indicative of regar