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Brazil¹
- /bɹəˈzɪl/ Australia, Canada, UK, US
- [-ˈzɪɫ] Australia, Canada, UK, US
Rhymes with -ɪl
Where it comes from
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Vulgar Latin *brasa
Old Galician-Portuguese brasa
Portuguese brasa
Proto-Indo-European *-elis
Proto-Italic *-elis
Latin -īlislbor.
Portuguese -il
Portuguese brasilder.
Portuguese Terra do Brasilellip.
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”).
proper noun Brasil · Brasill
- 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.
- A city, the county seat of Clay County, Indiana, United States.
Brazil²
noun
brazil³
- /bɹəˈzɪl/
Rhymes with -ɪl
noun brazils · brasil · Brazil
- A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood. A small Quantity of Saffron will Tinct more then a very great Quantity of Brasil.
- The hard, brown wood of a certain species of the tribe Caesalpinieae; originally sappan (Biancaea sappan), of the East Indies, and later brazilwood, Paubrasilia echinata. The Prouince Brasilia tooke his name of the woode called Brasill.
- A Brazil nut. I picked up a handful of brazils from the bowl.
- A seam of coal containing iron pyrites
