different between rego vs ergo

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

From Middle English ergo, from Latin ergo.

Pronunciation

• (General American)IPA^(key): /???o?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)???

Adverb

ergo (not comparable)

1. Consequently, therefore, or thus.
   • 2003, Pirates of the Caribbean:

     The pirates who invaded this fort left Sparrow locked in his cell; ergo, they are not his allies.

Translations

Conjunction

ergo

1. therefore (especially in syllogisms)

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???o?/

Noun

ergo (plural ergos)

1. (rowing, slang) An ergometer (rowing machine).

Etymology 3

Clipping of ergonomic

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???o?/

Noun

ergo (plural ergos)

1. (informal) An ergonomic factor or characteristic.

Anagrams

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

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????o/

Adverb

ergo

1. ergo

Further reading

• “ergo” in Duden online

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r.?o/

Etymology 1

From Latin erg?.

Conjunction

ergo

1. ergo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ergo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ergere

Further reading

• ergo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• egro, orge

Latin

Alternative forms

• ergo (poetic)

Etymology

Equivalent to an adverbial derivation from *?reg?, presumably ex- +? reg?, with sense similar to cognate perg? (“I proceed”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?re?- (“to straighten; right”). See also erg?. Compare with the adverbial use of ? regi?ne (“directly, against”), with the same elements.

Pronunciation

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

Conjunction

erg?

1. therefore, because, hence, consequently, thus
   • 1637, René Descartes' Discourse on the Method

     Cogito, ergo sum.

     I think, therefore I am.

Derived terms

• dicis erg?

Adverb

erg? (not comparable)

1. consequently, therefore
2. accordingly, then

Descendants

References

• ergo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ergo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ergo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ergo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r???/

Adverb

ergo

1. (Late Middle English) thus, consequently, ergo

Descendants

• English: ergo

References

• “erg?, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-12.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin erg?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r.??/

Conjunction

ergo

1. (rare, literary) therefore, thus

   Synonyms: przeto, tote?, wi?c, zatem

Further reading

• ergo in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ergo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: er?go

Etymology 1

From Latin erg?.

Conjunction

ergo

1. ergo, therefore

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ergo

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

Usage notes

ergo as a verb has a closed sound in comparison with the conjunction.

Further reading

• “ergo” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “ergo” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “ergo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.
• “ergo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin erg?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e??o/, [?e?.??o]

Conjunction

ergo

1. ergo, therefore

Further reading

• “ergo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ergo.

Conjunction

ergo

1. ergo, therefore