Definitions
South American country whose capital is Brasilia
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“A small Quantity of Saffron will Tinct more then a very great Quantity of Brasil.”
“The Prouince Brasilia tooke his name of the woode called Brasill.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
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