brazil
/bɹəˈzɪl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.58 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.
name
A city, the county seat of Clay County, Indiana, United States.
noun
The hard, brown wood of a certain species of the tribe Caesalpinieae; originally sappan (Biancaea sappan), of the East Indies, and later brazilwood, Paubrasilia echinata.
noun
A Brazil nut.
noun
A seam of coal containing iron pyrites
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Thou know'st my brittle temper's prone to break. Are my bones brazil or my flesh of oak?"
- "[P]ernambucco – the finest brasil from Brazil, so strong it almost resembles iron – became the favoured material for good bows."
- "I picked up a handful of brazils from the bowl."
Etymology
Etymology tree Vulgar Latin *brasa Old Galician-Portuguese brasa Portuguese brasa Proto-Indo-European *-elis Proto-Italic *-elis Latin -īlislbor. Portuguese -il Portuguese brasilder. Portuguese Terra do Brasilellip. Portuguese Brasilder. Portuguese Brazilbor. English 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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Brazil, *brasō, -īlis
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bɹəˈzɪl/
- British English: /bɹəˈzɪl/