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”).

• Brasil (archaic)

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /bɹəˈzɪl/, [-ˈzɪɫ]

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• Hyphenation: Bra‧zil
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Brazil

2. A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.
   • 2025 April 4, Lex Harvey and Esha Mitra, “US tourist arrested after allegedly attempting to contact ‘world’s most isolated’ tribe”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     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.

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

• Brasília

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Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Breasail (“descendant of Breasal”), a byname meaning "strife".

• Brazzle

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹæzəl/

Brazil (plural Brazils)

1. A surname from Irish.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Brazil is the 6373^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5343 individuals. Brazil is most common among White (70.19%) and Black/African American (20.4%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Brazil”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 220.

Brazil m (definite Brazili)

1. Brazil (a large Portuguese-speaking country in South America)

Brazil

1. Brazil (a large Portuguese-speaking country in South America)

Brazil m

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Brasil.
   • 1933, Graciliano Ramos, chapter XI, in Cahetés‎^[2], 1st edition, Rio de Janeiro: Schmidt, page 74:

     — Sim? acudiu Nicolau radiante. Pois eu apenas repeti as informações dos jornaes. Foi um caso divulgado, rolou por este Brazil todo. Os senhores com certeza leram. O Correio da Manhã, o Estado de S. Paulo, outro de nome arrevezado, publicaram. E eu, que não gosto de propaganda, até me acanhei.

     “Yes?”, Nicolau replied, radiant. “Well, I only related what was reported in the papers. It was a widely publicized case, it made waves all over Brazil. You gentlemen must have read about it. Correio da Manhã, Estado de S. Paulo, and another one with a strange name all published it. And I, who don’t care for publicity, even felt a little uneasy.”

• This spelling coexisted with Brasil.
• The country’s official name technically changed in 1931, with the passing of the 1931 Orthographic Agreement. However, since the agreement was largely not followed, the spelling with a ⟨z⟩ remained in occasional use for some time. Nevertheless, the spelling Brasil became increasingly more common and was notably used in the Brazilian Constitution of 1934, which otherwise actively repeals this spelling reform, employs the spelling with an ⟨s⟩.

• IPA^(key): /brǎziːl/
• Hyphenation: Bra‧zil

Bràzīl m inan (Cyrillic spelling Бра̀зӣл)

1. Brazil (a large Portuguese-speaking country in South America)