rumex
See also: Rumex
English
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
rumex (plural rumexes)
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Noun
rumex m (plural rumex)
- sorrel (plant of the genus Rumex)
Synonyms
Further reading
- “rumex” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Origin uncertain, but the suffix -ik and ek is 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
Inflection
Third declension.
| 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, 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
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