Masculine

Brasil

Sentences

Grandes cidades do Brasil

.

Large cities in Brazil.

O estudo da literatura no Brasil

.

The study of literature in Brazil.

Futebol
🏈

é um
1

esporte muito popular no Brasil

.

Football is a very popular sport in Brazil.

Brazil (a large Portuguese-speaking country in South America; official name: República Federativa do Brasil; capital: Brasília)

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɾaˈziw/

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-der. Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos Proto-Italic *pākslos Latin palus Old Galician-Portuguese pao Portuguese pau Vulgar Latin *brasa Old Galician-Portuguese brasa Portuguese brasa Proto-Italic *-elis Latin -īlislbor. Portuguese -il Portuguese brasil Portuguese pau-brasil Portuguese Brasil Clipping of pau-brasil (“brazilwood”), a tree that was extracted in great quantities in the early days of Portuguese colonisation, from pau (“wood”) + brasil (“ember-coloured”), from brasa (“embers”) + -il.