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 word order emphatic one such as "omnis" "all": This also applies when a participle is used instead of an adjective: The orders Adjective-Noun-Genitive and Adjective-Genitive-Noun are both common in Caesar and Cicero; but Genitive-Adjective-Noun is infrequent. There are certain words that are enclitic, that is to say, they always follow a stronger word. Typical of these are "enim" "for", "autem" "however, moreover", and "vero" "indeed", which virtually always come after the first full word of the sentence (not counting prepositions), never first. Other words which require a stronger word to lean on are "quoque" "also" and "quidem" "indeed". These can never begin