Although the etymological origin of the name of Brazil is not yet clear, the most accepted theory is that of the philologist Adelino José da Silva Azevedo. According to him, the word would originate from the celter bark, which the Phoenicians used to designate the red dye. In the Middle Ages, as the use of the dye spread, the name took several variants: the genoveses called brazi, the Brazilian Castilian.
In the early sixteenth century, with Pedro Alvares Cabral in the head, when the Portuguese arrived in the present Brazil, they found trees of the species Caesalpinia echinata. From the tree, you could get wood and tint in vivid red colors, and the Portuguese called it palo brasil. Immediately the logs began to be exported to Europe, almost to the extinction of the species. But the name remained somewhere, although in the other main symbols of Brazil there is no trace of the red color.
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