They are many color dualities—and orange is no exception. Used as both a noun and adjective, no English word exists to serve as a true rhyme for orange. It is the only color of the spectrum whose name was taken from a fruit, the well-known orange ( citrus sinensis ). Coming from a evergreen tree, oranges are among the most grown fruit in the world, and because the tree is ever bearing, the color orange became associated with fruitfulness. Having passed through many languages, the word initially got its start from the Dravidian root for ‘fragrant’. It was then interpreted in Sanskrit, and then made its way among Persian , Armenian , Arabic, Latin, Italian, Old French dialects before making its first appearance in English in the 14th century. Before 1542 “yellow-red” ( geoluhread) was the word used to describe the color before the fruit and color were synonymous. The etiology for the first place named Orange may be estranged from the word, but is no less symbolic in meanin...