Probably because it’s similar to verde
I thought “She must be french. It does start like vert”.
That seems to be the verdict so far
Yes, verde good.
Yup. My first thought, “Because it sounds like verdant.”
Much more similar to “vermelho” which is “red” in Portuguese
Vermiglio is also red in italian, maybe verdaccio
Rojo is Spanish for red. Bermellón is Spanish for vermilion.
I mean, why would the other two spend three or more syllables on a primary color, anyway?
this is why Italians have to speak so quickly, and supplement their words with gestures.
Why use many noise when few noise do trick?
As soon as I found out that Vermillion was red, the name of the tavern from Hello From The Magic Tavern made a lot more sense
I would be happy for it to switch places with Chartreuse, which feels strongly like a red word and is definitely not a bright yellow-green
naw, its the french poisoning your mind
green in french is vert
We also have “vermeille” in France
For those of us in the US, we’re more likely to encounter the Spanish “verde.”
Given most of the US population lives between Massachusetts and Florida (so would likely have more of French exposure via English and history) , and the French influence in lots of English, it’s a toss up.
I certainly learned the French vert long before the Spanish verde.
You’re telling me you never encountered salsa verde before learning the French word “vert”? Even if true, I highly doubt that’s the norm.
And I’m not sure why you think being on the East Coast matters. 13% of Americans speak Spanish at home, less than 0.4% speak French or Cajun at home. That’s a ridiculously huge region you’ve cited that includes NYC where you’re probably going to visit a bodega long before you learn “vert” and Florida which has major Spanish influence, just like the other two most populous states California and Texas. I live about 100 miles from the Canadian border in the west, so by your geographic argument I should encounter more French than Spanish, but Spanish exposure is way more common here.
I live on the east coast and took French for many years since I also lived in Canada. I’ve only heard of verde. No I didn’t do well in French class
Because “vert” is the French word for green.
Ver- words are often green because of Latin. “Verde” in Italian, “Vert” in French, “Verdant” in English
Yeah, except for vermilion which comes from latin vermis and means worm.
Same as vermicelli. Pasta that looks like vermin/worms.
Vermillion is such a pretty word to mean worm colored…
I guess a worm can be cute if you give it a bow to wear.
But worms are brown.
Actually worms are transparent but they eat dirt, so they’re brown.
And perhaps at one point they ate clay, so they would have been more reddish in color, or perhaps the dirt they were consuming was more reddish in color.
Googled it. It wasn’t because of worms in general. It was from Vermiculus which is the diminutive of Vermis but also was how they called a very specific worm, at some point in time the only way they knew where to get red pigments from was by crushing this worm.
There are plenty of pink and red worms out there. And grey. And some green. A few blue.
Also “verde” in Portuguese, but red is “vermelho”
Yeah and million is for dollars which is green.
Verd/vert is the prefix. You can’t just cut off the last letter.
Verily.
In Portuguese “vermelho” is red
I always feel like Portuguese is the romance language that hated their parents and refused to participate in any family activities. Like Latin is in the front seat yelling back “Cur non eritis sicut sorores tuae!” and Portuguese is in the way back going, “Pare de tentar controlar quem eu sou!”
I’ve heard it sounds like someone with a Slavic accent speaking Spanish
People speaking Russian always triggers my Portuguese language processor, so yeah I’d say that’s accurate.
Here’s the thing about Portuguese: you can go from portuguese to other romance languages much more easily than the reverse. If you want to learn Italian, French and Portuguese, start with Portuguese.
Portuguese is what happens when you let a bunch of drunk sailors create their own language.
Funny because I have literally heard Portuguese called “Drunken Spanish”.
Aw, came here to say that and got beaten to the punch. Damn you, fast Portuguese speakers.
colorblind people are like, “yeah, totally.”
Can colourblind people not see the words either?
this is what colorblind people see every day
They find diamond every day? Lucky people
Well the most common type of colored blindness is red green color blindness.
And apparently diamonds are blue.
So yeah
I won’t let this build up inside of me
Let it all out
Verde
Werd
Vermelho
Edit: I’ve just read other comments offering more explanation than I did, but vermelho means red in Portuguese
Encarnado
I’m not a native Portuguese speaker so I wasn’t aware of that particular way of saying red. Thanks for sharing!
I wish it was not a color at all. It should be a number.
Right after freemillion
Ver= green. Million= monayyyy
Sounds like a Tolkien book to me.
Vermillion (or more precisely vermillion) is the name of a fruit fly (Drosophila) mutant with bright red eyes (as opposed to wild type, which has brick red eyes). I always knew my genetics PhD would come into handy one day.
No mention of viridian, a blueish green, in these comments, I see.
My favourite letter is V. This is likely as a result of one of my favourite childhood games; VVVVVV. Main protagonist?
Captain Viridian.
I could never forget about the existence of the best alternative to turquoise.
Childhood? Surely not, VVVVVV came out in 2010. That was basically yesterday.
Yes, childhood. I was, like, 8.
God, and you’re a full-blown adult now, fuck me.
No no, people were children before the late 2000s. It can’t possibly be that an entire generation has grown up since I left high school.
Wait til you hear what they call ‘classic rock’…
Viridian sounds like it should be a red
Viridian sounds like a character in a YA fantasy novel.
Yeah, I was going to say it might be because people associate it with veridian, but I’m late to the party.
Veridian Dynamics we can even make radishes so spicy that people can’t eat them, but we’re not because people can’t eat them, Veridian Dynamics, Food. Yum.
Spelled different, but seemed relevant.