A set of wavelenghts intermediate to those of red and yellow.

The fruit came first, and the color was named after it.

Historically, the word "orange" was derived from the Sanskrit word nāraṅga, which referred to the citrus fruit. This term traveled through Persian (nārang), Arabic (nāranj), and Old French (pomme d'orange) before it entered the English language as "orange" around the 14th century.

Before the adoption of "orange" as a color name, the color was often described as "yellow-red" or "saffron." The term for the color only became widely recognized in English in the 16th century, after the fruit's introduction to Europe.

This timeline makes it clear that the fruit was identified and named before the color was associated with it.

I'll tell you this now. It was the fruit came first.