Filipinx

Filipina or Filipino (and any gender).

Adjective

  1. Filipina or Filipino (and any gender).
    • I didn't want people knowing I was Filipinx, or Chinese, I didn't want them laughing at my culture, or my food, or asking me why my clothes always smelled like I had just come from a buffet. - 2017 November 15, Robert...
    • […] was Filipinx American. As a nine-year-old who knew nothing of the world outside my German Canadian hometown, I identified with her. - 2025 August 26, Jenny Heijun Wills, Everything and Nothing At All: Essays, Random...

Origin

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”).

Noun

  1. A Filipina or Filipino (of any gender).

Forms

Filipinxs

Synonyms

Filipin@ Filipino

Related

Chicanx Latinx

Wikipedia

Filipinx