Question

what came first, the fruit orange or the color orange?

Answer 1

http://answergirlnet.blogspot.com/2007/03/which-came-first-orange-fruit-or-orange.html

Answer 2

The color, I would expect. It seems very unlikely people would not have distinguished the color from both red and yellow, and had a word for it, until they had seen an orange.

Answer 3

the color

Answer 4

Well @Carl_Pham, the color itself obviously existed prior to the fruit, but use of the word "Orange" was first for the fruit and only later the color.

Answer 5

God said, Let there be light.
and since light is comprised of all colors (including orange), it was there first.