rumex

See also: Rumex

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

rumex (plural rumexes)

  1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Rumex; a dock or sorrel.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Rumex, from Latin rumex (“sorrel”).

Noun

rumex m (plural rumex)

  1. sorrel (plant of the genus Rumex)
    Synonym: oseille

Further reading

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Origin uncertain, but the suffixes -ik and -ek are found in other plant names such as larix and carex. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour, salty, bitter”).[1]

Noun

rumex m or f (genitive rumicis); third declension

  1. sorrel

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rumex rumicēs
Genitive rumicis rumicum
Dative rumicī rumicibus
Accusative rumicem rumicēs
Ablative rumice rumicibus
Vocative rumex rumicēs

Descendants
  • Catalan: romàs
  • French: ronce
  • Italian: romice
  • Norman: ronche (Jersey)
  • Spanish: romaza

References
  • “rumex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rumex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • rumex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  1. Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “rumex”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 450
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