What came first?

Question

The colour ,orange, or the fruit, orange?

Haha... this randomly popped into my mind the other morning, so I was just curious to find out what you all though.

Answer 1

The fruit.....no question.

Answer 2

The fruit came first n then named the fruit orange because of its colour very good question x x x x x

Answer 3

According to the big Oxford English Dictionary which gives the historical details. The fruit definitely came first — it is recorded in English in the fourteenth century, while the application of its name to the colour only appeared at the beginning of the seventeenth. This raises the question of what people called the colour before they had a word for it: either they didn’t (few things in nature are that colour and there was no bright orange pigment available to artists and dyers until the early nineteenth century) or they borrowed terms like yellow, gold, amber, or red to describe various shades!!!

Answer 4

The fruit orange

because i think the colour orange came from the fruit


actually im not sure


arghh this is gonna bug me now

Answer 5

Definitely the colour orange as it is a colour of light (think of your rainbow) and light came first before any fruit. Also fruit growth is dependent on light :)

Answer 6

The fruit came first.

The color is named after the orange fruit, introduced to Europe via the Indo-European word nāranja. Before this was introduced to the English-speaking world, the color was referred to (in Old English) as geoluhread, which translates into Modern English as yellow-red.
The first recorded use of orange as a color name in English was in 1512,[2] in the court of King Henry VIII.

Etymology: [Origin: 1300–50; ME: the fruit or tree < OF orenge, c. Sp naranja < Ar nāranj < Pers nārang < Skt nāraṅga]

Answer 7

I think the fruit orange

Answer 8

The colour came first then they named the fruit after the colour the same as the blueberry and the blackberry.Mind you makes you wonder why the lemon wasn't called the yellow.lol

Answer 9

In the english language, the colour was called "yellow-red" before the fruit was introduced. So, the fruit came first.

Answer 10

The fruit

Answer 11

The fruit