orange

Significado (inglés)

Noun

orange (fruit)

Adj

orange

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɔ.ʁɑ̃ʒ/

Etimoloxía (inglés)

Short form of late Old French pume orenge or pomme d'orenge, which was calqued after Old Italian melarancia (mela + arancia). The o came into the word under influence of the place name Orange, from where these fruits came to the north.
See orange (English).