Got this from Wikipedia.
Arausio was a local Celtic water god who gave his name to the town of Arausio (Orange) in southern Gaul, as attested to by ancient inscriptions.[1]
The modern name of both the city and the family that established itself there, the House of Orange-Nassau,
is a corrupted version of Celtic word Arausio. In the Middle Ages the
name of the city was conflated in French and Late Latin with another
word, orange.
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