Etymology

Brasília

Today it means: A municipality, the capital city of Brazil; the capital of Distrito Federal, Brazil. Full definition →

Portuguese Brasília ← Latin Brasilia ← Old Galician-Portuguese brasa
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The story

  1. Vulgar Latin*brasa
  2. Old Galician-Portuguesebrasa
  3. Portuguesebrasa
  4. Portuguesebrasil
  5. PortugueseTerra do Brasilellip.
  6. PortugueseBrasil
  7. LatinBrasilia
  8. PortugueseBrasília
  9. English todayBrasília

Borrowed from Portuguese Brasília.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.