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does any one know of any other cognates in other languages?
Yes, Turkish! kirmizi (no dots on any of the i's) No surprise there since it was originally from Arabic, and Turkish and Arabic share a lot of words.
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I wonder why red, despite all the good things y’all have been saying about its popularity, is used to signify danger.
PS: I'm sorry to have pinched tomorrows word! I guess there's always that danger.
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>associated with blood
sanguine is one of those words which has developed somewhat opposite senses:
1. bloodred
2. bloody; bloodthirsty, murdurous (sanguinary); ruddy
3. having blood as the predominant body humor
4. confident, optimistic
(not exactly opposites, but murdurous and optimistic seem on the further reaches of some sort of scale)
anyway, I suspect that all relates to the popularity of red as a color.
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Red is traditonally used to indicate hot as opposed to blue indicating cold. In stars as in flame it works the other way around with red being significantly cooler than blue.
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Can bulls see color? Or is there something else involved?
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>Can bulls see color? Or is there something else involved?
motion. the red of the cape is for the bullfighter--he wouldn't want to lose track of the thing.
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cinniibar
1. A heavy reddish mercuric sulfide, HgS, that is the principal ore of mercury. 2. Red mercuric sulfide used as a pigment. 3. See vermilion (sense 2).
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English cinabare, from Latin cinnabaris, from Greek kinnabari.
this is also known as chinese red, since it was cinniibar was used to make chinese laquer.
it was also often used by alchemists... you heat the cinniibar, (and drive off the oxigen, and get liguid mercury, which then oxidized back into cinniibar..
it was the 'sublimation of mercury" that was a basis for alchemry, and it lead to many an alchemist getting mercury poisoning-- including Newton!
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"I wonder why red, despite all the good things y’all have been saying about its popularity, is used to signify danger." Check this out: http://newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen99/gen99420.htm
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Red is also considered to be the colour of lust; of lasciviousness, of sexual excess. A woman in red is a loose woman. A woman in red underwear is automatically available. A woman with bright red lipstick is on the ran-tan. But nothing comes my way ...  Still ... comments?
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Danger makes sense, red is the color of fire, of ( in the words of my niece) "Hot, don't touch."
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