The town has no obvious association with the fruit other than being on the road from Marseilles to Paris, along which masses of oranges were transported to northern France and beyond.

The name subsequently was corrupted to Auranche, then Orange. sources to be from aura 'a breeze' and a reference to the north winds which rush down the valley, but perhaps this is folk etymology of a Celtic word. Its Roman name was Arausio, which is said in 19c. The name is from the town of Orange on the Rhone in France, which became part of the Nassau principality in 1530. His cousins and their descendants constitute the royal line of Holland. It was introduced to Hawaii in 1792.ġ796 in reference to members of a secret politico-religious society founded 1795 in Belfast to promote Protestant power in Northern Ireland, named for William of Orange (who became King William III of England and triumphed in Ireland at the head of a Protestant army at the Battle of the Boyne), of the German House of Nassau. Introduced in Florida (along with lemons) in 1513 by Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon. On his second voyage in 1493, Christopher Columbus brought the seeds of oranges, lemons and citrons to Haiti and the Caribbean. Portuguese, Spanish, Arab, and Dutch sailors planted citrus trees along trade routes to prevent scurvy. from India by Portuguese traders and quickly displaced the bitter variety, but only Modern Greek still seems to distinguish the bitter ( nerantzi) from the sweet ( portokali 'Portuguese') orange. The Persian orange, grown widely in southern Europe after its introduction in Italy 11c., was bitter sweet oranges were brought to Europe 15c. The tree's original range probably was northern India. Loss of initial n- probably is due to confusion with the definite article (as in une narange, una narancia), but also perhaps was by influence of French or 'gold.' The name of the town of Orange in France (see Orangemen) perhaps was deformed by the name of the fruit. Not used as a color word in English until 1510s ( orange color), 'a reddish-yellow color like that of a ripe orange.' Colors similar to modern orange in Middle English might be called citrine or saffron.

as a surname), from Old French orange, orenge (12c., Modern French orange), from Medieval Latin pomum de orenge, from Italian arancia, originally narancia (Venetian naranza), an alteration of Arabic naranj, from Persian narang, from Sanskrit naranga-s 'orange tree,' a word of uncertain origin. Late 14c., in reference to the fruit of the orange tree (late 13c.

Different words for orange colour