Brazil
专有名词
英 /bɹəˈzɪl/|[-ˈzɪɫ]
美 /bɹəˈzɪl/|[-ˈzɪɫ]
英文释义
专有名词
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A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.
— 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 city, the county seat of Clay County, Indiana, United States.
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Etymology tree
Vulgar Latin *brasa
Old Galician-Portuguese brasa
Portuguese brasa
Proto-Indo-European *-elis
Proto-Italic *-elis
Latin -īlislbor.
Portuguese -il
Portuguese brasil
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”).
Vulgar Latin *brasa
Old Galician-Portuguese brasa
Portuguese brasa
Proto-Indo-European *-elis
Proto-Italic *-elis
Latin -īlislbor.
Portuguese -il
Portuguese brasil
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”).
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