From Abidji to English to Zapoteco, the perception and naming of color is remarkably consistent in the world's languages. Across cultures, people tend to classify hundreds of different chromatic ...

Dating back centuries, the names of our everyday colors have origins in the earliest known languages. According to linguists: There was a time when there were no color-names as such . . . and that not ...

1. Eburnean — If you love a good off-white or ivory color, then eburnean will certainly make your list. This name is derived from the Latin "eburneus," which means "of ivory." 2. Incarnadine — Used by ...

I've always been fascinated by how people distinguish colors and how they choose to name them. There are lots of colors with specific hues, and appropriately specific names. For example, take one of ...

These colors of the rainbow don’t get quite as much publicity as ROYGBIV, from puke to Isabella. (One of those two hues has a pretty sickening backstory, and it’s probably not the one you think.) But ...

Your miracle baby deserves a name filled with hope - and these rainbow baby names are exactly that. This post appeared first ...

Ready for a challenge? Test your English color vocabulary with this quick quiz. Can you name all the advanced colors?

Lots of fancy color words come from flowers or fruits: violet, periwinkle, lavender, lilac, olive, eggplant, pumpkin, and peach, to name a few. In English, pink used to refer exclusively to a flower ...