Rhubarb cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit:- "Rhubarb" originally comes from the two Greek words for rhubarb. "Rheon" from the Persian "rewend", later became the Latin word "rheum", meaning rhubarb. The other Greek word is "rha", an ancient name for the Volga River in Russian, where rhubarb was cultivated, having been introduced there from China via the Silk Road. In medieval Latin, "rheon" and "rha" became "rheum barbarum", literally "foreign rhubarb" or "strange rhubarb", and evolved later into "rheubarbarum". Most likely, the English word "rhubarb" entered the language via the French word "rhubarbe" brought over by
Latin obscenity later. "Merda" is productive in the Romance languages, and is the obvious etymon of French "merde", Spanish "mierda", and in Vegliot Dalmatian "miarda". It is preserved unaltered in Catalan, Galician, Italian, Portuguese, and Sardinian. It was preserved in Romanian too, not for feces, where "căcat" (derived from "caco") is used instead, but in the word "dezmierda", originally meaning "to clean the bottom of (an infant)"; subsequently becoming "to cuddle" or "to fondle". "Pēdō", "pēdere, pepēdī, pēditum" is the basic Latin word for passing intestinal wind. In the "Sermones" 1.8, 46, Horace writes: Christopher Smart translates this passage as "from my