blue-green of vegetation. Grass, for instance, is gorm, rather than uaine. In addition, liath covers a range from light blue to light gray. However, the term for a green apple, such as a Granny Smith, would be ubhal glas. The boundary between colors varies much more than the "focal point": e.g. an island known in Breton as Enez c'hlas ("the blue island") is l'Île Verte ("the green island") in French, in both cases referring to the grayish-green color of its bushes, even though both languages distinguish green from blue. Romance The Romance terms for "green" (Catalan , French , Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish ) are all from Latin . The terms for "blue", on the other hand, vary: Catalan , Occitan , French and Italian come from a Germanic root, whereas the Spanish and Portuguese azul is likely to come from Arabic. French bleu was in turn loaned into many other languages, including English. Latin itself did not have a word covering all shades of blue, which may help explain these borrowings. It did, however, recognise (dark blue, sometimes greenish), and (grayish blue, like lead). French, as most Romance languages, makes roughly the same distinctions as English and has a specific term for each of blue (""), green ("") and gray (""). For all three, different shades can be indicated with different (compound) terms, none of them being considered as basic color terms: "bleu " (light blue), "bleu " (sky blue), "bleu " (Navy blue), "bleu " (royal blue); "vert clair" (light green), "vert " (literally: apple green); "gris " (deep gray), "gris " (literally: "mouse gray"). French also uses "" for the lighter shade of blue of the sunny sky, that was in turn loaned to English as "azure". Catalan distinguishes blue () from green () and gray (). Other basic or common colors by its own right are "purple", "yellow", or "orange", "red", "pink", "brown", "gray", "black" and "white". For all these colors except black and white it is possible to indicate different shades using "light" and "dark"; for blue, though, it generally is blau cel "sky blue" and blau marí "sea blue". Other words and compounds are common to indicate more elaborated shades (verd llimona "lemon green", rosa pàl·lid "pale pink", lila "lilac", granat "carmine", ocre "ocher", verd oliva "olive green", etc.). Catalan actually distinguishes two reds with different and common words: while refers to the