A question - Oranges

[wannadivenotwork]

Whilst trying to teach my 2 1/2 yr old son colours, and interesting question came up (well, not THAT interesting, but it is Friday, so anything is easy game)

Are Oranges called "oranges" because they are Orange?
Or Is the colour orange called orange becuase Oranges are the colour orange?

[aclivity]

no, they are called 0ranges as originally there was only one sort - i.e. no range.

Or because they don't work well as ballistic missiles.

Or possibly because they belonged to someone else, possibly a Lady by the name of Angela, who shortened her name to Ange.

(no, I don't know either, but apparently they aren't the only fruit.)

[kuki9591]

from Wiki

The colour is named after the orange fruit. Before this was introduced to the English-speaking world, the colour was referred to (in Old English) as geoluhread, which translates into Modern English variously as yellow-red, yellowred, or yellored (all pronounced the same).

Note to my boss, give me more work to do

[tom]

Originally Posted by kuki9591

from Wiki
Note to my boss, give me more work to do

Bored? now find out what the Latin name for an Orange is. Note which bit of the name the English 'Orange' is derived from. Then find out what that bit means in Latin.

Then decide what was named after what


EDIT: actually, don't bother. The root is arabic not Latin, so I was barking up the wrong tree. I'll shut up now.

[abucksdiver]

Originally Posted by tom

so I was barking up the wrong tree. I'll shut up now.

What, an apple tree? a lemon tree?

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[Marky Mark]

And what about lemon, peach, aubergine, manderine. Are all these fruits named after the colour they are? Pink wine is called rose, after a rose

Is brown named after Newcastle Brown?

[CotoChris]

Curious:
English Orange fruit is same word for orange colour
Same for Portuguese: Laranja : Laranja
Same for Hungarian: Narancs : Narancs
Same for France: Orange : Orangé
Same for Spanish: naranja : naranja

Those are for the languages I know. Now which came first i don't know. Could it be from Orange county in South Africa?

Actually a natural orange is not that orange. the ones in Africa were more like green apparently (I'm colour blind)

[Scubee]

Originally Posted by CotoChris

Orange county in South Africa?

I thought Orange County was in Miami.

[Neil M]

so where does pomello come from then?

[pieater]

I don't know about the Orange question, but I do know why the colour isn't called "carrot":

Carrots where originally either purple or white. The Dutch created the orange carrot as a publicity stunt in the 18th / 19th century.

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