Brazil

A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.

Proper noun

  1. A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.
    • In February, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe in Brazil made brief contact with the outside world before returning to the Amazon rainforest. - 2025 April 4, Lex Harvey and Esha Mitra, “US tourist arrested...
  2. A city, the county seat of Clay County, Indiana, United States.

Origin

Etymology tree Vulgar Latin *brasa Old Galician-Portuguese brasa Portuguese brasa Proto-Indo-European *-elis Proto-Italic *-elis Latin -īlislbor. Portuguese -il Portuguese brasil Portuguese Brasilder. Portuguese Brazilbor. English Brazil From Portuguese Brazil, older spelling of Brasil, from brasil (“brazilwood”), originally ‘red like an ember’, from brasa (“ember”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brasō (“gleed, crackling coal”), and -il (“-ile, -like, -y”) from Latin -īlis (“adjective suffix”).

Forms

Brasil

Wikipedia

Brazil

Related

Brasília

Derived

Brazilian Brazilification Brazil nut Brazil plum brazilwood Dutch Brazil