rumex
See also: Rumex
English
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
rumex (plural rumexes)
- (botany) Any plant of the genus Rumex; a dock or sorrel.
Anagrams
- murex, muxer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Rumex, from Latin rumex (“sorrel”).
Noun
rumex m (plural rumex)
- sorrel (plant of the genus Rumex)
- Synonym: oseille
Further reading
- “rumex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- murex
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
- 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
- Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “rumex”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 450