Brazil

name

Etymology: 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”).

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.”

2. A city, the county seat of Clay County, Indiana, United States.

noun

1. A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood.

   “A small Quantity of Saffron will Tinct more then a very great Quantity of Brasil.”

2. 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.”

   “Thou know'st my brittle temper's prone to break. Are my bones brazil or my flesh of oak?”

3. A Brazil nut.

   “I picked up a handful of brazils from the bowl.”

4. A seam of coal containing iron pyrites