Resounding Night Crimson

Latin resonāre, to echo back — present-participle of resound. As a color modifier, resounding implies a saturated-and-echoing-and-imposing quality where the hue reverberates visually like a cathedral-bell ring. Sits at the bold-and-resonant end of the grid, parallel to resonant and booming in usage.

Old English niht, darkness-and-sleep. As a color modifier, night implies a moonlit-or-star-lit-dark quality, the visual register of clear-sky moonlit-and-star-lit atmospheric Rayleigh-scattered low-light surfaces against deep blue-black night-sky horizon. Sits at the modifier-and-time end of the grid, parallel to eve and yore in usage.

From the Old Spanish cremesin, itself from the Arabic qirmiz — the kermes scale insect, dried and ground into a brilliant carmine dye prized in the medieval Mediterranean. For centuries the most expensive red on a draper's shelf, reserved for cardinals, kings, and the cloth that gave English the word crimson. Cooler than scarlet, deeper than rose; the color of pomegranate seeds and a serious occasion.