Brazil

Meanings

1. A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.
2. A city, the county seat of Clay County, Indiana, United States.

1. A surname from Irish.

1. A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood.
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.
3. A Brazil nut.
4. A seam of coal containing iron pyrites

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”).