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[–] 209 points 2 years ago (12 children)

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

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  • [–] 71 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    But worms are brown.

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    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.

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