Table 2 List of the Italian colour terms with the highest Cognitive Salience Index (S).

Colour term	English gloss	F	F(%)	R_F	mP	R_mP	S	R_S
giallo	yellow	85	95.5	4.0	4.86	1	0.19656	1
rosso	red	86	96.6	2.0	4.99	2	0.19371	2
blu	dark blue	85	95.5	4.0	5.82	3	0.16400	3
verde	green	83	93.3	7.0	5.90	4	0.15797	4
nero	black	87	97.8	1.0	9.89	5	0.09889	5
arancione	orange	82	92.1	9.0	10.41	6	0.08847	6
viola	purple	85	95.5	4.0	11.07	8	0.08627	7
rosa	pink	83	93.3	7.0	11.19	9	0.08332	8
bianco	white	83	93.3	7.0	12.14	10	0.07679	9
azzurro	medium blue	63	70.8	14.0	10.78	7	0.06568	10
grigio	grey	77	86.5	11.0	14.17	13	0.06106	11
marrone	brown	81	91.0	10.0	15.09	18	0.06033	12
celeste	light/sky blue	65	73.0	13.0	12.52	11	0.05832	13
fucsia	fuchsia	73	82.0	12.0	14.45	14	0.05675	14
lilla	lilac	62	69.7	15.0	14.71	15	0.04736	15
verde acqua	sea-green	53	59.6	17.0	15.68	20	0.03798	16
ocra	ochre	42	47.2	21.5	14.88	17	0.03171	17
magenta	magenta	42	47.2	21.5	15.21	19	0.03102	18
beige	beige	54	60.7	16.0	20.48	27	0.02962	19
bordeaux	claret	49	55.1	18.0	18.98	25	0.02901	20
indaco	indigo	40	44.9	23.0	19.00	26	0.02365	21
oro	gold	45	50.6	20.0	21.73	31	0.02326	22
argento	silver	47	52.8	19.0	22.74	32	0.02322	23
porpora	cardinal red	36	40.4	24.0	18.17	24	0.02227	24
turchese	turquoise	27	30.3	25.0	16.74	22	0.01812	25
verde scuro	dark green	23	25.8	27.0	14.78	16	0.01748	26
amaranto	amaranth	25	28.1	26.0	17.64	23	0.01592	27
verde chiaro	light green	21	23.6	28.0	16.57	21	0.01424	28
ciano	cyan	15	16.9	32.0	14.07	12	0.01198	29
violetto	violet	20	22.5	30.0	20.50	28	0.01096	30
giallo canarino	canary yellow	20	22.5	30.0	21.10	29	0.01065	31
blu notte	night blu	20	22.5	30.0	21.20	30	0.01060	32

Terms (NHS = 32) with S > 0.01 ranked (RS) in descending order. Each term is also accompanied by its absolute frequency (F), relative frequency (F%), mean position (mP) in the list, and the corresponding ranks based on frequency (R_F) and mean position (R_mP).

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