different between rego vs reg

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

Etymology 1

Abbreviation.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?j, r?g, IPA^(key): /??d?/, /???/

Noun

reg (plural regs)

1. (Internet slang) A regular.

   I've been going to that chat room for months, and I know most of the regs by now.

2. (informal) A regulation.
3. registrar
4. registration
5. registry

Etymology 2

From regolith

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?g, IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

reg (countable and uncountable, plural regs)

1. (geography) A hard surface of rock fragments set in a sandy matrix, found in some hot deserts; regolith, stony desert.
   • 1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus 1993, page 66:

     As I say for half a mile round the fort it is rutted gravel. We call this sort of gravelly stuff reg.

Synonyms

• (hard surface of rock in sand): hammada, serir, yardang, desert pavement

See also

• erg
• koum
• zeugen

Anagrams

• -erg-, EGR, ERG, GER, GRE, Ger, Ger., Ger??, erg, ger, gre

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch recht, from Middle Dutch recht, from Old Dutch reht, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz (adjective) and *reht? (noun), from Proto-Indo-European *h?re?tós.

Adjective

reg (attributive regte, comparative regter, superlative regste)

1. right; correct
2. real; true; actual

Noun

reg (plural regte)

1. justice
2. right

Amanab

Noun

reg

1. child

Catalan

Noun

reg m (plural regs)

1. irrigation

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?k/

Verb

reg

1. singular imperative of regen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of regen

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r??]
• Hyphenation: reg

Noun

reg

1. (obsolete) morning

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• reg in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??e?/

Verb

·reg

1. first-person singular future conjunct of téit

Mutation

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin r?x, r?gem (“king”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?/, [?e?]

Noun

reg (nominative plural regs)

1. (male or female) royal monarch, king / queen

Declension

Hyponyms

• hireg
• jireg

Derived terms

• ad reg peleüledölan (leül, leülön, leüled, leüledön)
• davälareg
• dobareg
• gerareg
• lampör-reg
• Norgänareg
• regakur
• regakvil
• regam
• regasomun, Osmunda regalis
• regatigrid, Panthera tigris tigris
• regavat
• regän
• regiäl
• regik
• regiko
• regikön
• regil
• regisasen
• reg läna
• reg Norgäna
• rego
• regön
• reg Svedäna
• regükön
• regül
• Svedänareg

Related terms

• davälahireg
• davälajireg
• dobahireg
• dobajireg
• gerahireg
• gerajireg
• hilampör-hireg
• hiregapijun (cf. en: king pigeon (or simply king), de: Kingtaube)
• hiregän
• hiregänik
• hiregik
• hiregiko
• hirego
• hireg cögädom (cög, cögön, cögädön, cögan)
• hireg Norgäna
• hireg Svedäna
• hiregül
• jilampör-jireg
• jiregän
• jiregänik
• jiregik
• jiregiko
• jireg Norgäna
• jirego
• jireg Svedäna
• jiregül
• Norgänahireg
• Norgänajireg
• regänik
• regän Sikilänas tel
• regiälan
• regiälik
• regiälim
• regiäliman
• regiälimik
• regisasenan
• Svedänahireg
• Svedänajireg
• tareg
• vireg

See also

• guv
• guvan
• guveral
• guverön
• hilampör
• hizar
• jilampör
• jizar
• lampör
• reig
• reigan
• reigän
• reigön
• zar

Welsh

Noun

reg

1. Soft mutation of rheg.

Mutation