different between sorrel vs rumex

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s???l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s???l/
• Rhymes: -???l

Etymology 1

From Middle English sorel, from Old French sorel, surele (“sorrel”), from Old French sur (“sour”), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *s?raz (“sour”); equivalent to sour +? -el (diminutive suffix). Compare Old English s?re (“sorrel”), Icelandic súra (“sorrel”), Dutch zuring (“sorrel”). More at sour.

Noun

sorrel (countable and uncountable, plural sorrels)

1. Any of various plants with acidic leaves, especially
   1. Rumex acetosa (common sorrel, garden sorrel), sometimes used as a salad vegetable.
   2. Members of genus Oxalis or family Oxalidaceae, woodsorrels.
   3. The roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
2. A drink, consumed especially in the Caribbean around Christmas, made from the flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa: hibiscus tea.
   • 2007, African and Caribbean Celebrations ?ISBN, page 56:

     Now, many people drink alcohol, but when I was a child I remember drinking sorrel, ginger beer and drinks made from fresh fruits such as soursop and passion-fruit. Sorrel was prepared over a long period, not as quickly as it is now.

   • 2009, C. C. Alick, Dancing with the Yumawalli: Inspired by True Events, page 62:

     For instance, one day we were sitting on the porch, looking down at the lagoon and the yachts from all over the world. He was drinking ginger beer mixed with rum, and I was drinking sorrel. No rum. Out of nowhere, he proposed.

   • 2012, Claudette Beckford-Brady, Sweet Home, Jamaica, page 390:

     Joy and the parents did not go either; we spent a quiet day at home, eating roast chicken and stuffing with our own green-gungu rice and peas, and drinking sorrel.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• oxalic acid
• schav
• sourwood

Further reading

• sorrel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English *sorel, from Middle French *sorel, sorrel, surrel, from Middle French sor (“yellowish-brown, reddish-brown”), probably from Old Frankish *saur (“dried”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *saus- (“dry, parched”); equivalent to sore (“reddish-brown”) +? -el (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch soor (“dry”), Old High German s?r?n (“to become dry”), and Old English s?ar (“withered, barren”). See also sere.

Noun

sorrel (countable and uncountable, plural sorrels)

1. A brown colour, with a tint of red.

Translations

Adjective

sorrel (not comparable)

1. Of a brown colour, with a tint of red. (especially: a sorrel horse)

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

rumex (plural rumexes)

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

Anagrams

• murex, muxer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin Rumex.

Noun

rumex m (plural rumex)

1. sorrel (plant of the genus Rumex)

Synonyms

• oseille

Further reading

• “rumex” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• murex

Latin

Etymology

Origin uncertain, but the suffixes -ik and -ek are found in other plant names such as larix and carex. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour, salty, bitter”).

Noun

rumex m or f (genitive rumicis); third declension

1. sorrel

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• French: ronce
• Italian: romice
• Norman: ronche (Jersey)
• Spanish: romaza

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• rumex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette