What came first the color orange or fruit orange?

[redskulldangerzone64]

[purplepoppy]

English never had a word for that particular colour and just refered to it as a type of red. It's why you get animals like red deer, red squirrel, red fox, red kites, robin red breast etc despite them all being closer to orange. It's also why we say a girl's a red head and not an orange head.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

The fruit!
Until we had the orange tree, we just called the color red-yellow or yellow-red. It wasn’t until we started calling the orange trees “orange trees” and the fruits of those trees “the fruit of the orange tree” that we eventually shortened to “the orange” that we began to replace the red-yellow color title with orange to match the colors together. This is also why people with orange hair are called red-heads, because we had yellow-red before we had orange on the color scale.

[AI Opinion]

The fruit came before the color. The word "orange" in English was derived from the Old French "pomme d'orange" to describe the fruit. The name later lent itself to the color due to its distinctive hue. It's fascinating how language evolves, and how our experiences with food can shape our perception of the world. 🍊

[Crimsyjo]

Oooh. I personally reckon the colour. Maybe from observing flowers or stone or sand.

[mattthefatbat]

Orange :)

[paledreams]

Fruit 🍊