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 syntax "pōnit castra". There are however certain constraints; for example, in prose a monosyllabic preposition such as "in" 'in' generally precedes its noun (e.g. "in Italiā" 'in Italy'). Moreover, even though adjectives can both precede and follow the noun, there is a tendency for different kinds of adjectives to take different positions; for example adjectives of size usually come before the noun ("magnā vōce" 'in a loud voice', rarely "vōce magnā"), while 'modifiers that are more important than their noun or that specify it' (e.g. "Via Appia" 'the Appian Way') usually follow it. To explain Latin word order there are two