fuchsia

English fuchsia comes from New Latin, coined for the plant genus Fuchsia, which honors German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566). The color name simply borrows the flower's name.

The word started as a scientific genus name for a flowering plant, then shifted to describe the bright pinkish-purple color of its blossoms.

The genus name Fuchsia derives from the surname Fuchs, which is the German word for 'fox' — tracing back through Old High German vuhs to Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz. So the flower and color are distantly tied, through a person's name, to the word for fox.