"The color orange"

Translation: Il colore arancione

[1dannix]

I have learned it as "arancia" for the color and the fruit. The color never changes the letter "a" at the end because any colors that are also nouns never change spelling (like viola or rosa).

[apophenia]

Did anyone else think it was just asking for "arancione" as opposed to "arancia?" They could change it to pretty much any other color and remove the ambiguity.

[wiz0floyd]

I thought arancia was the fruit, while arancione was the color.

[crazy4hazy]

I did too...

[Pierluissi]

I wrote arancia and got marked wrong. It says the correct answer is arancio... ?

[Duolessio]

Just to clarify:

• arancione is the colour

• arancia is the fruit

• arancio can mean both

[Marninger]

The ending -one is used as an augment, to make things bigger, more important or to characterise.

Padre+one = padrone = boss
Bacio+one = bacione = big/long kiss
Minestra+one = minestrone = soup with "extra everything"
Mangiare+one = mangione = big eater
Arancio+one = arancione = (something) orange

[GermaineLee]

Thanks for this helpful explanation :)))

[dempsey69]

Why is color masculine could it not be her or his color

[marcolometro]

arancione can be masculine or feminine. It is an adjective that describes the noun which in this sentence is "the color". The word "color" in italian is masculine, so the adjective "arancione" is masculine in this sentence.

[tuftypoem]

There isnt a reason for it being masculine, it just is

[TobyBartels]

It has nothing to do with whether it's his colour or her colour, the word just is whatever gender it is. Although it is strange that it's masculine in Italian, when the cognate word is feminine in French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

[Laragazza215994]

That's not exact for Spanish. The color is "el anaranjado", although it would change to anaranjada when the adjective is feminine, just as in Italian

[lynettemcw]

I am curious where you are from or what dialect of Spanish you speak. I have never heard anything but naranja (with gender and number agreement) for the color as well as the fruit. I've always assumed my college Spanish was Castilian Spanish, but what I speak now is mostly Mexican or the US mix. Obviously the concept of lumping all the dialects of the Americas together is problematic though.

[Ivitcyex]

https://www.spanishdict.com/answers/8742/naranja-vs.-anaranjadoa
It varies by region. I found this post from the link to be a good explanation for Mexican usage:
En México se acostumbra anaranjado para referirse al color naranja. Siguiendo la lógica "anaranjado" pertenece al grupo de tonos que sólo se acercan al color "puro" pero no entiendo porqué es una excepción.

azul-azulado
naranja-anaranjado
blanco-blancuzco
verde-verdáceo
violeta-violáceo

Por ejemplo blancuzco no es exactamente blanco.

[jusdorange11]

ta mere la tchoin pourquoi tu me mets faux

[katabrontes]

In the Venice Alilaguna website it give Linea arancio as the Orange line

[lynettemcw]

Arancione is the "official" color word, but you will see the fruit name used as the color as well, although not as commonly

[f8AuAIIC]

any differene for 'the orange colour' and 'the colour orange' in the italian translation?

[Bruce684262]

My Italian dictionary (Macmillan) says "arancione" is "bright orange", which is consistent with the suffix "one" amplifying a noun.

[lynettemcw]

Well I've looked at five other dictionaries including WordReference, Collins, Cambridge and a couple of Italian language sites and have found none to agree with that.

[Bruce684262]

Hmm. It also has "arancia" as the fruit and "arancio" as the color (it says that "arancio" can also mean an "orange tree")

[lynettemcw]

That I can verify. Actually, the Collins entry that is shown on that tab of the Word Reference source does show "bright orange", although it simply translates it as orange. It also has a reference for "gli arancioni" which I didn't see where I looked before. Apparently "gli arancioni" refers to the Hari Krishna. But here are the WordReference entries for the applicable words.

https://www.wordreference.com/iten/arancia

https://www.wordreference.com/iten/arancio

https://www.wordreference.com/iten/arancione