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 a sentence, therefore. Other words, such as "fere" "approximately" and "etiam", are frequently enclitic: In the phrase "ne ... quidem" "not even", the word "quidem" generally follows the first word of the emphasised phrase, rather than the whole phrase: Personal pronouns such as "me" "me" and "mihi" "to me" can have weak and strong forms in Latin. When weak they tend to be found early in the sentence, either after the first word (which can be a conjunction such as "cum" "when" or "et" "and") or after an enclitic such as "enim", if present: Contrast sentences like the following, where