Re: Quest for colours: what's basic then?

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> Torquoise is a fancy name for bluish greens and greenish blues. Beige
> is a species  of brown. Aqua is Latin for water - I'm not even sure
> what colour it's supposed to refer to.
"Aqua" is short for "aquamarine" and is similar to turquoise: the color
whose focus is in the overlap between blue and green.

There's a notorious stereotype that women are more discriminating in
color names than men, at least among anglophones (possibly reinforced by
the much higher rate of red-green color-blindness among men).  My wife,
for example, insists that aqua is no more a kind of blue (or green)
than orange is a kind of red (or yellow)

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