Would we call them purples?

i guess so...

yep.

We'd call anything purple orange, and maybe anything orange purple.

 

Although I seriously doubt this, and I think we would have called them something else that correlates to purple or the fruit.

kinda like what's first egg or chicken question :wtf:

^Well, in the way that it's asking a question of what came first, but in many other ways, not at all.

 

The fruit must have come first, surely, and the colour was named after it. I dunno I just always assumed that.

I'd say the fruit came first, then they took the name of the colour from it.

 

 

... But when did oranges get brought over to europe?

Errr... are you talking about the literal name "orange" for the colour, or the actual colour itself? :lol:

I'm guessing color :thinking:

Yes and that would be awesome.

Errr... are you talking about the literal name "orange" for the colour, or the actual colour itself? :lol:

 

Hahaha!

Naranjas. :awesome:

If you were a duck, I'd be a banana.

Nice, Imke. :P

the fruit

cuz in french there's a rule in dictation: if you have an adjective that means a color and an object(fruit or other) you never add "s" in pluriel you keep it "orange"that's why I think it's the fruit.

I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.

What came first, the color or the fruit?..

Da froot

Are you sure?.. depends you're religious views though.

The color was named after the fruit. :tongue:

Or maybe the fruit was named after the color O_o

It's all a conspiracy!

No I'm right, it says so on wikipedia. :snobby:

:thinking:

Etymology

Main article: Orange (word)

The colour is named after the orange fruit, introduced to English via the Spanish word naranja[3] which came from the Sanskrit word नारङ्ग (nāraṅga). 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,[4] in the court of King Henry VIII.

 

 

Oh.I see. :blank: