Question

which orange came first..."the fruit'' or "the colour"...


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Answer 1

Answer:

orange comes from the French word citrus fruit

so the fruit must be first

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Answer 2

Answer:

The citrus definitely got named first. The earliest recorded use of orange the fruit in English is from the 1300s and came to us from the Old French orenge, adapted from the Arabic nāranj, from the Persian nārang, from the Sanskrit nāranga ("orange tree").