You can think of ochre as a handful of soil that already has colour in it. Dig it, crush it, add water, and you have paint without adding anything else. Everything else the word does grows out of that handful of coloured earth.
From the word’s history
From Old French ocre, from Latin ochra, from Greek okhra meaning pale yellow. The oldest meaning recorded is the colour, and the earth was named for it.
往回追是古法文 ocre、拉丁文 ōchra、希臘文 ōkhra，本意是「淡黃色」。所以顏色其實是更早的那一層，土是因為顏色才得名。這也說明了為什麼今天材料和顏色會共用一個字。
Wiktionary entry for ochre (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:129367757), etymology 1
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原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ochrenoun詞源 1/ˈəʊkə/
- 1
A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide.
- 2
A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour.
- 3
The stop codon sequence "UAA".
- 4
datedslangMoney, especially gold.
- ‘What does he come here cheeking us for, then?’ cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament. ‘If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors and take it out.’
- 5
Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
ochreadj詞源 1/ˈəʊkə/
- 1
Having a yellow-orange colour.
- 2
archaeologyhistoryhuman-sciencesReferring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.
ochreverb詞源 1/ˈəʊkə/
- 1
To cover or tint with ochre.
- […] his eye was caught by the sight of one child in a group of smaller children playing in the shallows some little distance down—a white child, so white by contrast with the others that at first he thought it must be ochred, which it could not be while playing in the water.
- The sun gloats in the sky, casting a gleam on the pasture where there was so much umbering and ochreing only moments before.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。