Pink is a pale red color; the use of the word for the color was first recorded in the late 17th century describing the flowers of pinks, flowering plants in the genus Dianthus. Pink itself is a combination of red and white. Other hues of pink may be combinations of rose and white, magenta and white, or orange and white.
Roseus is a Latin word meaning "rosy" or "pink." Lucretius used the word to describe the dawn in his epic poem On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura). The word is also used in the binomial names of several species, such as the Rosy Starling (Sturnus roseus) and Catharanthus roseus.pink signifies love, widely used for wedding dresses