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

• murex, muxer

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

rumex m (invariable)

1. 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 -ix and -ex are found in other plant names such as larix and carex. Probably a substrate word; compare Ancient Greek ῥῡτή (rhūtḗ, “rue”).

More information

One doubtful etymology supposes derivation from Proto-Indo-European *sū-ro- (“sour, salty, bitter”) via metathesis *sūr- > *srū-, an innovation supposedly shared by Ancient Greek ῥῡτή (rhūtḗ), but this is even less likely with the modern laryngealist reconstruction *suH-ro-.

Noun

rumex m or f (genitive rumicis); third declension

1. sorrel

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rumex	rumicēs
genitive	rumicis	rumicum
dative	rumicī	rumicibus
accusative	rumicem	rumicēs
ablative	rumice	rumicibus
vocative	rumex	rumicēs

Derived terms

• *rumica, *rumicia (Vulgar Latin)

Descendants

• Corsican: romiccia
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: romice
• North-Italian:
  • Piedmontese: ronsa
• Gallo-Romance:
  • French: ronce
  • Gascon: arromèc, ròmec, arromèga
  • Occitan:

    Auvergnat: ronza, aronza

    Languedocien: romèc, ròmec

    Limousin: romdre, romze, romec, rumec

    Provençal: romi

    Vivaro-Alpine: rome, romi, romec, romegue, romega

  • Norman: ronche (Jersey)
• Via merging with lapathium:
  • Catalan: romàs
  • Gascon: arromegàs, romegàs
  • Occitan: romegàs

    Vivaro-Alpine: romiàs

  • 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, 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.