Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color wheel, on which it is at hue angle of 330 degrees. Rose is one of the tertiary colors on the HSV color wheel. The complementary color of rose is spring green. The first recorded use of rose as a color name in English was in 1382. The etymology of the color name rose is of course the same as that of the name of the flower. The name originates from Latin rosa, borrowed through Oscan from colonial Greek in southern Italy: rhodon (Aeolic form: wrodon), from Aramaic wurrd , from Assyrian wurtinnu, from Old Iranian warda (cf. Avestan warda, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr).