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 the indirect object is a full noun, and follows the direct object (which according to Devine and Stephens is the neutral word order): Unlike true enclitics, however, pronouns can also sometimes begin a sentence: As with the copula "est" (see above), when a focus phrase or emphatic delayed topic phrase intervenes, the weak pronoun will usually follow that, rather than the first word of the sentence: However, sometimes the pronoun will be found in second position, leaving "est" to follow the focussed phrase: And in the following example, the pronoun follows not the focussed word, but the conjunction "si" "if":