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Nascent Drama

Hex triplet #008000 (HTML/CSS)
#00FF00 (X11)
 
HSV (h, s, v) (120°, 100%, 50~100%)
 
Source HTML/CSS[4]
X11 color names[5]
 
The word green comes from the Old English word grene, or, in its older form, groeni.
 
This adjective is closely related to the Old English verb growan (“to grow’) and goes back into Western Germanic and Scandinavian languages.[7]
 
The word designates the color on the visible light spectrum situated between blue and yellow.
 
It is often used to describe foliage and the sea, and has become a symbol of environmentalism.
 
It also is combined with other color names to increase specificity, as in “blue-green”, or with objects, as in “emerald green”.
 
Green is also used to describe jealousy and envy, as well as anyone young, inexperienced, or gullible (probably by analogy to unripe, i.e. unready or immature, fruit).[1]
 
Green is sometimes associated with nausea and sickness.[8]
 
Lastly, green can communicate safety to proceed, as in traffic lights.[2]
 
Overall, greens, along with blues and purples, are frequently described as “cool” colors, in contrast to red and yellow.[9]
 
Some languages have no word separating green from blue (see blue-green across cultures).[9]
 
The word green is found in several colloquial phrases derived from these meanings: in golf, the region of grass around the hole is trimmed short and referred to as the putting green, or simply, the green.[1]
 
Someone who works well with plants is said to have a green thumb or green fingers, a physically-ill person is said to look green around the gills, and the word greenhorn refers to an inexperienced person.[2]
 
A company is greenwashing if they advertise positive environmental practices to cover up environmental destruction.[10]
 
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