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adj
Filipina or Filipino (and any gender).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, rare
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A Filipina or Filipino (of any gender).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, neologism
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History
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”).
