different between rego vs lego

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???d???/

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

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

Catalan

Verb

rego

1. first-person singular present indicative form of regar

Galician

Etymology

From the interaction of diverse sources: Latin rig?re (“to water”), a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *reku ("river"), and Proto-Celtic *?rik? (“furrow”). Compare Old Breton rec (“furrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?o?/, /?r??o?/

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. stream

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• derregar (“to demarcate”)

Related terms

• Rega
• Regas
• regato
• Rego
• Regos

Verb

rego

1. first-person singular present indicative of regar

References

• “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.

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Italic *reg?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ré?eti (“to straighten; right”). Cognate to Sanskrit ????? (r??jati, “to direct; to steer; to rule”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?re.?o?/, [?r??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?re.?o/, [?r????]

Verb

reg? (present infinitive regere, perfect active r?x?, supine r?ctum); third conjugation

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

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (rule, govern): ordin?

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
• rego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Portuguese

Etymology

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

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

English

Noun

lego (countable and uncountable, plural legos)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Lego

Anagrams

• Goel, Loge, Ogle, goel, loge, ogle

Finnish

Alternative forms

• leego, Lego, Leego

Etymology

From Danish LEGO.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le(?)?o/, [?le?(?)?o?]
• Rhymes: -e?o
• Syllabification: le?go

Noun

lego

1. Lego, lego, Lego brick (type of plastic toy brick)

Declension

Derived terms

• leego (“tooth”) (slang)

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto le?o, French loi, Italian legge, Spanish ley.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?o/

Noun

lego (plural legi)

1. law

Derived terms

Italian

Verb

lego

1. first-person singular present indicative of legare

Anagrams

• gelo, gelò, gole

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *leg?, from Proto-Indo-European *le?-. Cognates include Ancient Greek ???? (lég?, “I speak, I choose, I mean”) and Albanian mbledh.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?le.?o?/, [?????o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?le.?o/, [?l????]

Verb

leg? (present infinitive legere, perfect active l?g?, supine l?ctum); third conjugation

1. I choose, select, appoint
3. I collect, gather, bring together
4. I read

5. (Medieval Latin) I teach, profess

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

From l?x (“a formal motion for a law”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?le?.?o?/, [???e??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?le.?o/, [?l????]

Verb

l?g? (present infinitive l?g?re, perfect active l?g?v?, supine l?g?tum); first conjugation

1. I dispatch, send as ambassador
2. I deputize
3. I appoint by a last will or testament, leave or bequeath as a legacy

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Catalan: llegar
• Spanish: legar

References

• lego in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lego in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

lego m (definite singular legoen, uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of LEGO

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

lègo f

1. (non-standard since 1917) definite singular of lègu

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.??/

Noun

lego

1. vocative singular of lega

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?l?.?u/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Danish Lego.

Alternative forms

• Lego

Noun

lego m (plural legos)

1. Lego (small, coloured plastic toy bricks made by the Lego Company)
2. (trademark generalisation) any similar brick toy
3. (figuratively) things that can be assembled together to form a larger thing

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

lego

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?o/, [?le.??o]

Etymology 1

From Latin l?icus. Doublet of laico.

Adjective

lego (feminine lega, masculine plural legos, feminine plural legas)

1. ignorant, lay

Noun

lego m (plural legos, feminine lega, feminine plural legas)

1. layman

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

lego

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of legar.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?.?u/

Noun

lego ?

1. Lego

Declension

Anagrams

• geol., loge