Translingual

Noun

Rumex m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Polygonaceae – several hundred species of herbs, many called dock or sorrel.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots - clades; Caryophyllales - order; Polygonaceae - family; Polygonoideae - subfamily; Rumiceae - tribe

English

Noun

rumex ‎(plural rumexes)

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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin Rumex.

Noun

rumex m ‎(plural rumex)

1. sorrel (plant of the genus Rumex)

Synonyms

• oseille

Anagrams

• murex

Latin

Etymology

Origin uncertain, but the suffix -ik and ek is found in other plant names such as larix and carex.

Noun

rumex m ‎(genitive rumicis); third declension

1. sorrel

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “rumex”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.