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
Vulgar Latin many changes happened. For example, the of "ego" was lost by the end of the empire, and "eo" appears in manuscripts from the 6th century. Classical Latin had a number of different suffixes that made adverbs from adjectives: ', "dear", formed ', "dearly"; ', "fiercely", from '; ', "often", from '. All of these derivational suffixes were lost in Vulgar Latin, where adverbs were invariably formed by a feminine ablative form modifying ', which was originally the ablative of "mēns", and so meant "with a ... mind". So ' ("quick") instead of "" ("quickly") gave "veloci mente" (originally "with a