The color orange was actually named after the fruit!

Isn't it the other way around regarding oranges? Colour named after the fruit.

the color orange was named after the citrus fruit

Actual in that case the color was named after the fruit. Indo-European languages didn't have a word for the color between red and yellow, but the fruit was well known. Slowly, we started using the name of the fruit to describe the color.

Weirdly, the colour is named after the fruit.

i think , and i may be wrong, that the colour was named after the fruit. sounds odd but according to etymologists, the colour orange was named after the citrus fruit. It evolved from the Spanish word “naranja” meaning orange tree. The Spanish word came from a Sanskrit word.

Nope the colour is names after the fruit with oranges.

Color was named after the fruit.

I think that went the other way. The color is named after the fruit. Before that, it was yellow red in English.

Close. But the color was named after the fruit. Not the other way around. Before the discovery of oranges, that color was called yellow-red.

Orange (the colour) is named after the fruit, no thee other way round

Colour named after the fruit in that instance.

I believe the colour was actually named after them.

I read that the color was named after the fruit

Isn't it the other way around? Color named after fruit?

Fun fact! The color orange was named after the fruit

The colour orange was actually named after the fruit rather than the other way around.

The colour Orange is named from the fruit.

Color may have been named after the fruit!

Was the colour named after the fruit or the fruit named after the colour.

The color is named after the fruit, not the other way around.

Sorry. The color is named for the fruit.

Interestingly, no. The colour is named after the fruit. Seriously.

The color is named after the fruit.

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Close, none if them are names of fruit. Any more than "yellow banana" it's it's own fruit.

You are using colors to describe the fruit. Not the actual fruit name.

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Can't even post obvious facts on BP without getting downvoted LOL! Pure comedy!

It says named after the color. You look at the quickly they look black.

The colour was named after the fruit.

Nope. The colour is named after the fruit.

The color we know as orange was referred to in Old English as “geoluhread,” which means yellow-red. The word “orange” was adopted after the eponymous fruit was introduced to English via the Spanish word naranja, which came from the Sanskrit word nāraṅga.

The colour is named after the fruit.

I don't wanna blow your mind, but... colors are adjectives.

Close. But the color was named after the fruit. Not the other way around. Before the discovery of oranges, that color was called yellow-red.

Fruit came first.

O r a n g e

The color orange was named after the fruit! Before then, it was called yellow- red

Weirdly, the colour is named after the fruit.

See my earlier post, but the word orange was applied to the fruit before it was applied to the color.

the color orange was named after the citrus fruit

Close. But the color was named after the fruit. Not the other way around. Before the discovery of oranges, that color was called yellow-red.

The color we know as orange was referred to in Old English as “geoluhread,” which means yellow-red. The word “orange” was adopted after the eponymous fruit was introduced to English via the Spanish word naranja, which came from the Sanskrit word nāraṅga.

technecally yes but.... no

Because etymologists have looked into it. The fruit was "a naranj" in Arabic, which came to English via Spanish. No recorded use of the word "orange" to describe a colour predates about 1600.

I think the color came first, upvoting to get rid of your -1 points