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 obscenity predatory activities of prostitutes. The Latin verb "prōstō" meant "to be up for sale" and "prōstituō" meant "to expose for public sale." The poet Juvenal (6.120-3) describes how the disgraced Empress Messalina used to enjoy playing the part of a prostitute in a brothel: The man in charge of the brothel, who dismissed the girls at closing time, was the pimp or "lēnō" (Juvenal 6.127). The neuter word "scortum" could refer to either a male or female prostitute. This word may relate to Latin "scorteus", "made of leather or hide", much as English refers to the "skin trade". Lewis and