[Sca-cooks] Lemons in Middle English

[margaret]

The fruit.  Citrine derives from the Latin "citrus" which is the citron 
tree.  Orange derives from the Persian "narang" (possibly derived from 
Sanskrit), a reference to the orange tree.

Bear

> Be interested here, to see which came first, the color or the fruit? Was 
> the
> fruit named for the color, or vice versa? Same with oranges- can anagram
> orange, but can't rhyme it, unless I'm being silly in a limerick ;-) But,
> where do the words derive from? Any of you folks with access to an OED 
> have
> a clue?
>
> Saint Phlip,
> CoD