Etymology

Filipinx

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Today it means: A Filipina or Filipino (of any gender). Full definition →

Spanish filipina
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The story

  1. Spanish · derived fromFilipinas“Philippines”
  2. Spanish · derived fromfilipino
  3. Spanish · derived fromfilipina
  4. 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

Spanishfilipino all →

FilipinoPilipino

SpanishFilipinas all →

Philippines

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