rumex

From the genus name.

rumex (plural rumexes)

1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Rumex; a dock or sorrel.

• murex, muxer

Borrowed from translingual Rumex, from Latin rumex (“sorrel”).

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rumex m (plural rumex)

1. sorrel (plant of the genus Rumex)

   Synonym: oseille

• “rumex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• murex

Origin uncertain, but the suffixes -ix and -ex are found in other plant names such as larix and carex. Probably a substrate word; compare Ancient Greek ῥῡτή (rhūtḗ, “rue”).

rumex m or f (genitive rumicis); third declension

1. sorrel

Third-declension noun.

• *rumica, *rumicia (Vulgar Latin)

• Corsican: romiccia
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: romice
• North-Italian:
  • Piedmontese: ronsa
• Gallo-Romance:
  • French: ronce
  • Gascon: arromèc, ròmec, arromèga
  • Occitan:

    Auvergnat: ronza, aronza

    Languedocien: romèc, ròmec

    Limousin: romdre, romze, romec, rumec

    Provençal: romi

    Vivaro-Alpine: rome, romi, romec, romegue, romega

  • Norman: ronche (Jersey)
• Via merging with lapathium:
  • Catalan: romàs
  • Gascon: arromegàs, romegàs
  • Occitan: romegàs

    Vivaro-Alpine: romiàs

  • Spanish: romaza

• “rumex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "rumex", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• rumex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.