Pink is a pale red color; the use of the word for the color we know today as pink was first recorded in the late 17th century

The color Pink itself is a combination of red and white. Other hues of pink may be combinations of rose (rose (color)) and white, magenta and white, or orange (orange (colour)) and white.

Roseus (wikt:Roseus) is a Latin word meaning "rosy (Rose (color))" or "pink." Lucretius used the word to describe the dawn in his epic poem (Epic poetry) On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura). The word is also used in the binomial names (Binomial nomenclature) of several species, such as the Rosy Starling (Sturnus roseus) and Catharanthus roseus. In most Indo-European languages, the color pink is called rosa.