Orange (word)

Before the English-speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color was referred to as "yellow-red" (geoluread in Old English) or "red-yellow".

The first recorded use of "orange" as a colour name in English was in 1502, in a description of clothing purchased for Margaret Tudor.

[7][8] Although pume orenge is attested earlier than melarancio in available written sources, lexicographers believe that the Italian word is actually older.

[2] The word ultimately derives from a Dravidian language – possibly Tamil நாரம் nāram or Telugu నారింజ nāriṃja or Malayalam നാരങ്ങ‌ nāraŋŋa — via Sanskrit नारङ्ग nāraṅgaḥ "orange tree".

The Roman-Celtic settlement was founded in 36 or 35 BC and originally named Arausio, after a Celtic water god.

Some time after the sixteenth century, though, the color orange was adopted as a canting symbol of the House of Orange-Nassau.

[11] With forest, warrant, horrible, etc., orange forms a class of English words where the North American pronunciation of what is pronounced as /ɒ/, the vowel in lot, in British Received Pronunciation varies between the vowel in north (/ɔ/ or /o/ depending on the cot–caught merger) and that in lot (/ɑ/ or /ɒ/ depending on the father–bother merger).

US Naval Commander Henry Honychurch Gorringe, the captain of the USS Gettysburg, who discovered Gorringe Ridge in 1875,[25] led Arthur Guiterman to quip in "Local Note":[26] In Sparkill buried lies that man of mark Who brought the Obelisk to Central Park, Redoubtable Commander H.H.

William Shepard Walsh attributes this verse featuring two multiple-word rhymes to Walter William Skeat:[28] I gave my darling child a lemon, That lately grew its fragrant stem on; And next, to give her pleasure more range, I offered her a juicy orange.

Composers Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel wrote the song "Oranges Poranges" to be sung by the Witchiepoo character on the television programme H.R.