# Brazil

Pronunciation: say "bruh-ZIL" /bɹəˈzɪl/

## Proper noun

1. A large Portuguese-speaking country occupying much of eastern South America, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, with its capital at Brasília.
   - Simple: A large country in South America where most people speak Portuguese.
   - _Much of the Amazon rainforest lies within the borders of Brazil._
   - _Brazil exports vast quantities of coffee, soybeans, and iron ore._

## Other meanings

- (proper noun) A city, the county seat of Clay County, Indiana, United States.
- (proper noun) A surname from Irish.

## Origin

From Portuguese Brazil, an older spelling of Brasil, from brasil ('brazilwood'), originally meaning 'red like an ember'. This comes from brasa ('ember'), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brasō ('gleed, crackling coal'), with the suffix -il from Latin -īlis.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/brazil (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).