Question about oranges?

Question

Did they name the fruit based on the color, or did they name the color based on the fruit?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_%28w...

Answer 2

hahaha!

If it happened like that....I would guess they named the color based on the fruit. People probably named this fruit thousands of years ago and then named colors based on it and other vibrant items around them.

Answer 3

Orange color was around before the Orange fruit I guess, it was in flowers and tree foilage in the fall, besides Oranges are not really that orange on the trees in Florida, they have color added to them to make them prettier so you will buy more of them, on the tree they are gray and green and bumpy and rough and all sizes.

Answer 4

The colour is named after the orange fruit, introduced to Europe via the Indo-European word nāranja. Before this was introduced to the English-speaking world, the colour was referred to (in Old English) as geoluhread, which translates into Modern English as yellow-red.

The first recorded use of orange as a colour name in English was in 1512, in the court of King Henry VIII.