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Is the color Orange named after the fruit or the fruit named after the color?
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β 14y ago
The name for the fruit was used back in the 1300's while the colour orange dates a couple of hundred years later in the 1500's. ---->added by PufferFish31> I think it had something to do with the Duke Of Orange or something along those lines. (I tuned my grangmother out while she was explaining it.) ;3
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β 13y ago
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β 12y agoThe name for the fruit was used back in the 1300's while the colour orange dates a couple of hundred years later in the 1500's. That is a 200 year difference. So the fruit.
the fruit came first, and than people started calling everything that was same in color the name of the fruit
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β 8y agoThe colour orange is named after the appearance of the ripe orange fruit. The word comes from the Old French orenge, from the old term for the fruit, pomme d'orenge. That name comes from the Arabic naranj, through the Persian naranj, derived from the Sanskrit naranga.
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β 11y agoOrange is the color Orange because of capital letters but with capital it is the fruit orange
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β 14y agothe colour orange named after the fruit
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β 12y agoThe color was named after the fruit.
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Is the color called orange cause of the fruit?
Yes, the color was named after the fruit.
Which mobile company is named after fruit?
There is a Swiss mobile company named "Orange", but it is named after the color and not the fruit.
Which colour was named after a country?
The color orange was named after the fruit, not the country.
Why is the fruit orange named after a colour?
Fruit oranges actually aren't named after the colour. That's a very common mistake people make.The colour orange is actually named after the fruit. Previously, the colour that we now recognise as orange was called geoluread.
How did oranges get their name?
Because it is orange. NOT! the fruit came before the colorContrary to what most of us think, this fruit was not named for its color. Instead, the word orange comes from a transliteration of the sanskrit naranga. Which comes from the Tamil naru. Which means "fragrant."
Are oranges called oranges because they are orange or is orange called orange because oranges are orange?
Yes. see, the orange like the fruit came before the color orange. the color orange came from the orange (fruit), how it was colored. so if the orange were to say have been purple then instead of purple the color purple would've been orange. i know, it's a hard concept to understand. but, that is the answer.
When was the orange considered a fruit?
Yes an Orange is a berry. Every Berry is a type of fruit, but a berry is defined by if it is created from one single ovary. *The orange fruit is a hesperidium, a type of berry.* - the tomato, also a berry.
Why orange color orange?
Because the fruit is orange so it picks up from the color of the fruit
What is the difference between the color orange and the fruit?
The color orange was born in Jerusalem in the year 1253. The color orange is not citric and trees do not decide colors. Orange the fruit is a fruit.
What was named first the color orange or the fruit orange?
Wikipedia:The colour is named after the orange fruit, introduced to Europe via the Sanskrit 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.
What is Orange a Color or a Fruit?
Orange
What came first orange the fruit or orange the color?
The earliest known use of orange as a fruit was in the 1300s and can be traced back to Sanskrit origins. The word nΔranga meant "orange tree." The term then evolved to mean the fruit. The use of orange as a color doesn't come for another 200 years, in the 1500s. Linguists believe that before this, the color was referred to as "yellow-red" or geolurΔad in Old English. So the color was named after the fruit, not the other way around.
