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- Spanish · derived fromFilipinas“Philippines”
- Spanish · derived fromfilipino
- Spanish · derived fromfilipina
- English todayFilipinx
The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o of Filipina and Filipino, which are from Spanish filipina and Spanish filipino, both from Spanish Filipinas (“Philippines”), from Felipe II de España (“Philip II of Spain”), from Felipe (“Philip”).
Words from the same roots
Spanishfilipina all →
Filipina
SpanishFilipinas all →
Philippines
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.