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What language did magenta come from?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The colour is named for a town in Italy which was the site of a battle in 1860. So the word is in a sense Italian. However it was applied to the colour produced by a solution of Fuchsine, an aniline compound discovered in France and Germany at the time of the battle.

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13y ago

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