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 does not raise to the second position: In a negative sentence, the auxiliary tends to attach itself to the word "non", and does not move forward of it. "Non est" can either precede or follow the participle: When "est" is a copula, it tends to be unemphatic and to be placed after a stronger word, or between two strong words: This strong word which "est" follows can also be the subject: It is also possible for the subject to follow the copula: Or the order may be Adjective, Subject, Copula: In some sentences, the copula may begin the sentence: When