Filipinx
adjEtymology 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”).
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Rare 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 Diaz, Marissa Largo, Fritz Pino, Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN:
- […] 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 House, →ISBN, page 23: