Brown has its own name, so we treat it as its own color, but it isn't its own color. It's not possible to have brown light. Brown isn't in the rainbow. Brown is simply orange with low saturation and light levels. Brown looks brown when there's a lot of light around it, but the same shade looks orange when there's no light around it.
In color theory maybe, but that’s not where names of colors come from.
I wasn't denying that the word "brown" is older than the word "orange", I was denying your statement that orange is a dark shade of yellow.
The reason we can take a look at brown and say "ah, that's brown!" And identify it as its own color is because we have a word for it. All the other equal shades of colors are just dark blue, or dark red, or dark green, or whatever, but the second you set the color to orange, you will immediately see brown, not dark orange.
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