rumex
See also: Rumex
English
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
rumex (plural rumexes)
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin Rumex.
Noun
rumex m (plural rumex)
- sorrel (plant of the genus Rumex)
Synonyms
Further reading
- “rumex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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 (genitive rumicis); third declension
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
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), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 450
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