Re: The origin of "vermilion"

From: Xenia (tyusha_at_freemail.ru)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: 19 Sep 2004 11:31:38 -0700

Odysseus <odysseus1479-at@yahoo-dot.ca> wrote in message news:<413FB971.72B95CEF@yahoo-dot.ca>...
>
> Does the Russian _krasnoye_ (sorry if that's a poor transliteration),
> as in the name of Moscow's Red Square, refer to a slightly different
> colour than do the 'worm' words?

No it doesn't

> I ask because English "vermilion"
> describes a bright, orangey red (like "scarlet" but more so), while
> "crimson" and "carmine", whose etymology also refers to the insect --
> by a name ultimately derived from Arabic, anglicized to "kermes" --

The correct Russian translation of "vermillon" is "sharlakhovyi". The
word is cognate to English "scarlet" but has the same meaning as
"vermilion".

Xenia

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