What Came First The Color Orange Or The Fruit
Camila Farah
It has older roots in arabic persian and its origin is unknown.
Orange the fruit came first. Before orange the fruit was there orange the color. Oranges the fruit came to europe through spain with the moors who in arabic called the fruit nāranj. The color orange was actually named after the fruit.
The earliest recorded use of orange the fruit in english is from the 1300s and came to us from the old french orenge adapted from the arabic nāranj from the persian nārang from the sanskrit. Things that are orange in colour were referred to as red. Old french adapted the arabic word nāranj as pomme d orenge the fruit from the orange tree or just. There was a time when the name of the colour orange hadn t been for want of a better expression invented yet.
The fruit word orange came to us from medieval latin pomum de orenge. The name orange to the colour was given after the fruit as the first instance of the word in anglo manuscript pume orange dates back to the 13th century whereas the first use of the word to describe the color is first noted in the 16th century. As the word evolved it eventually came to mean the fruit not just the orange tree. Or if you prefer the big bang which created the cosmos prior to the earth s formation.
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Jacob van hulsdonck public domain rudimentary color theory is one of the first things we learn as children albeit while slopping paint together. Which is why the small bird known as a robin was sometimes known as robin red brest despite. The english word for the color orange has a trail back through a few european languages but has its origins in the sanskrit nāraṅga which was the name for the orange tree.
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