orenge
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French orenge, from Old Occitan auranja, from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj).
Pronunciation
Noun
orenge (plural orenges)
- (Late Middle English) orange (orange-coloured citrus fruit)
- (Late Middle English, rare) orange (A tree that bears oranges)
Descendants
References
- “oranǧe (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-2.
Old French
Noun
orenge oblique singular, f (oblique plural orenges, nominative singular orenge, nominative plural orenges)
- orange (fruit)
Descendants
- French: orange (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: orange, oraunge
- → Middle English: orenge, orange
- English: orange (see there for further descendants)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (orange, supplement)
- orange on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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