Editing Cyan (section)

==Etymology and terminology==
Its name is derived from the [[Ancient Greek]] word ''kyanos'' (κύανος), meaning "dark blue enamel, [[Lapis lazuli]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cyan|title=Online Etymology Dictionary|access-date=30 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dku%2Fanos|title=Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, κύα^νος|access-date=30 September 2014}}</ref> It was formerly known as "cyan blue"<ref>{{cite book|title = The Colorist: Designed to Correct the Commonly Held Theory that Red, Yellow, and Blue are the Primary Colors and to Supply the Much Needed Easy Method of Determining Color Harmony|author = J. Arthur H. Hatt|publisher = D. Van Nostrand Company|year = 1908|url = https://archive.org/details/coloristdesigned00hatt |page = [https://archive.org/details/coloristdesigned00hatt/page/22 22]}}</ref> or cyan-blue,<ref>''Shorter Oxford English Dictionary'', 5th edition.</ref> and its first recorded use as a color name in [[English language|English]] was in 1879.<ref>Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill page 194</ref> Further origins{{clarify|date=October 2021}} of the color name can be traced back to a [[dye]] produced from the [[cornflower]] (''Centaurea cyanus'').<ref>''The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments'', Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, Ruth Siddall, 2004, Routledge, {{ISBN|9781136373855}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2OH28vpzzMsC&pg=PT395 |title=Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments |isbn=9781136373855 |access-date=30 September 2014 |last1=Eastaugh |first1=Nicholas |last2=Walsh |first2=Valentine |last3=Chaplin |first3=Tracey |last4=Siddall |first4=Ruth |date=30 March 2007 |publisher=Routledge}}</ref>

In most languages, 'cyan' is not a basic [[color term]] and it [[wikt:phenomenologically|phenomenologically]] appears as a greenish vibrant [[hue]] of blue to most English speakers. Other English terms for this "borderline" hue region include ''blue green'', ''aqua'', ''turquoise'',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Raffman |first1=Diana |title=Unruly Words: A Study of Vague Language |date=2014 |publisher=OUP USA |isbn=9780199915101 |pages=56–57 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NVfSAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA57 |access-date=31 July 2019}}</ref> ''teal'', and ''grue''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kay |first1=Paul |last2=Maffi |first2=Luisa |title=Number of Basic Colour Categories |url=https://wals.info/chapter/133 |website=The World Atlas of Language Structures Online |publisher=Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |access-date=4 May 2021}}</ref>