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单词 rhapontic
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Definition of rhapontic in English:

rhapontic

(also rhaponticum)
adjective rəˈpɒntɪk
rare
  • Attributive Designating the rhubarb plant Rheum rhaponticum and its medicinal rootstock.

Origin

Late Middle English (in an earlier sense). In α and some forms from post-classical Latin reuponticum (636 in Isidore; frequently from 12th cent. in British sources; compare earlier reoponticum (400), reum ponticum), probably from Hellenistic Greek ῥῆον ποντικόν (usually in genitive ῥήου Ποντικοῦ), in Byzantine Greek also ῥέον ποντικὸν from ῥῆον rhubarb + ancient Greek ποντικόν, neuter of ποντικός. In γ and some forms from post-classical Latin rhaponticum from rha + classical Latin Ponticum, neuter of Ponticus, after Hellenistic Greek ῥᾶ ποντικόν. Compare post-classical Latin reubarbarum. Compare Middle French reupontic, rheupontique, French †rhupontique, also Middle French, French rhapontic, Old Occitan reupontic, Italian reupontico, Middle Low German repontik, reponticum.

Definition of rhapontic in US English:

rhapontic

(also rhaponticum)
adjectiverəˈpɒntɪk
rare
  • Attributive Designating the rhubarb plant Rheum rhaponticum and its medicinal rootstock.

Origin

Late Middle English (in an earlier sense). In α and some forms from post-classical Latin reuponticum (636 in Isidore; frequently from 12th cent. in British sources; compare earlier reoponticum (400), reum ponticum), probably from Hellenistic Greek ῥῆον ποντικόν (usually in genitive ῥήου Ποντικοῦ), in Byzantine Greek also ῥέον ποντικὸν from ῥῆον rhubarb + ancient Greek ποντικόν, neuter of ποντικός. In γ and some forms from post-classical Latin rhaponticum from rha + classical Latin Ponticum, neuter of Ponticus, after Hellenistic Greek ῥᾶ ποντικόν. Compare post-classical Latin reubarbarum. Compare Middle French reupontic, rheupontique, French † rhupontique, also Middle French, French rhapontic, Old Occitan reupontic, Italian reupontico, Middle Low German repontik, reponticum.

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