Brazil

Meaning

Proper Noun

Origin

  • From Portuguese Brasil, from brasil, originally ‘red like an ember’, from brasa, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brasō ("gleed, crackling coal"), and -il from Latin -īlis ("adjective suffix").

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