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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”).[1]
“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.