Legalized (aka Consularized) means stamped / authenticated by the Brazilian Consulate in your home country.
If you pretend to anything more than simply being a tourist in Brazil you will need this document for pretty much everything.
Why? Most importantly because it says who your parents are. And this is of paramount importance in Brazil for almost everything (from getting a CPF, getting or swapping a driving licence, to getting work permission).
In Brazil, your parents names are part of your "civil identity", as much as your date and place of birth.
In many other countries this is not the case, so this already represents the first surprise / stumbling block for foreigners in Brazil, if they do not have this document.
And you have to obviously get it legalized in the Brazilian Consulate in you home country BEFORE you come to Brazil, otherwise it will just be a worthless piece of paper. How else is some Brazilian public official going to know whether it is really a birth certificate from your home country, and not something you printed at home?
Once in Brazil, you will have to translate it. The translation should be done in Brazil by a sworn translator; for an official list you should contact the "junta comercial" of your state: simply google "junta comercial [name of your state]".
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