Re: Color names, color discrimination

["Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese" <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

Further etymology:  cyanosis -- blue appearance from insufficient oxygenation of
the blood.

bc


David Bowman wrote:

> Thanks Rick, for straightening me out on this. :)
>
> > While David's note is clearly tongue in cheek, CYAN is defined in RGB color
> > systems as equal mixes of green and blue each at the same intensity.
> >
> > FWIW
>
> BTW, (besides commuting the "e" & "i" in the word "foreign") it seems I
> left out a Greek letter in the parentheses below. I wrote:
>
> >                       ....           I thought I would mention that
> > according to the etymology listed in my dictionary for the entry on
> > "cyan", it seems that the word comes from the Greek "kyanos"
> > (kappa|upsilon|nu|omicron|sigma) whose meaning is/was 'dark blue'.
>                 ^
> The spelled out spelling needs a missing alpha, vis,
> (kappa|upsilon|alpha|nu|omicron|sigma).
>                ^^^^^
> David Bowman
> David_Bowman@georgetowncollege.edu