“…According to Italian linguists, Italian BCT for “blue” is azzurro ( Giacalone Ramat, 1978 ; Grossmann, 1988 ; Mazzoni & Grossmann, 1988 ). However, linguistic studies provided evidence that, along with azzurro , also blu and celeste are salient terms in both spoken language ( Giacalone Ramat, 1978 ) and written language ( Grossmann, 1988 ) across various Italian dialects suggesting the three terms as BCT candidates . Along with these terms, multiple non-BCTs are used for denoting blue color in Italian, such as “old” terms indaco and turchese / turchino or metonymic, culture-specific carta da zucchero (e.g., Albertazzi & Da Pos, 2017 ; Grossmann, 1988 ; Kristol, 1979 ; Paggetti et al, 2016 ; Sandford, 2015 ; Uusküla & Bimler, 2016 ) , as well as recent terms like ciano , cobalto , pervinca , or petrolio (e.g., Albertazzi & Da Pos, 2017 ; Grossmann & D’Achille, 2016 ; Uusküla, 2014 ; Valdegamberi et al, 2015 ) .…”