• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Ver- words are often green because of Latin. “Verde” in Italian, “Vert” in French, “Verdant” in English

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, except for vermilion which comes from latin vermis and means worm.

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        5 months ago

        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.

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          5 months ago

          But worms are brown.

          Actually worms are transparent but they eat dirt, so they’re brown.

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            5 months ago

            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.

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              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.